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"God save the King
By Command of His Honor
The Lieutenant Governor
(Signed) Nicholas Bayly
Secretary
Head Quarters Sydney
January 27th 1808"
59th - This Proclamation was followed up with a Salute of 21 Guns from Dawes's Point and the Standard of Great Britain was hoisted. The Troops fired three vollies from the Parade.
60th - On that and several succeeding days, Committees again met, before whom all the Magistrates, and those who were considered as having been intimate at Government House were brought and examined concerning my Administration and intentions, every wicked artifice, as well as threats were used, to force affirmative answers to all such questions as their diabolical minds could propose, and some of them were brought to such agitation, from a fear of their lives, that they knew not what they said or did, trembling under the Tyranny which was existing.
61st - These committees were composed of McArthur, Bayly, Blaxcell, Grimes, Jamison, Surgeon, Captain Kemp, Lieutenant Minchin, Lieutenant Lawson, Lieutenant Draffen, Doctor Townson, and John Blaxland.
62 - There were, likewise, Benches of Magistrates
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