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will inform Lieutenant Governor Collins of your proceedings and request him to receive the persons and things you have without delay, and having so done, you will return hither with the utmost dispatch.
As the duty which you have to fulfil is the complete evacuation of Norfolk-Island, I have to require you to keep up the utmost cordiality with Captain Piper, the Commandant, and the Lieutenant Governors of the Derwent, and Port-Dalrymple, chearfully, consulting with them, and representing what you can accomplish in the numbers of souls, with their necessaries, you can take, on board the Ship.
And that nothing may occur to delay the duty alluded to, you have my permission, and orders to take down any and all bulk-heads, which you may see will give you more room, for Storage, and