Volume 67: Macarthur family papers relating to livestock, 1814-1884: No. 223
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Camden Park
7th April 1860
My Dear William,
I enclose Mr. Martins receipt as Registrar of the District Court for £28.11.0 deposited by Cheque & subject to decision on a New Trial of the Case Brand v. Heather.
The Mare in dispute is in Edward Heathers possession and agrees with the Description of the Mare sold by me to Apps in 1855. I have examined her carefully and believe her to be the same. There is no trace of any kind of Brand upon her.
The Cause of her being sold without our brand was as follows.
Her dam Modesty used constantly to stray away on the Church and school land at the back of ours particularly in the direction of Mount Hunter and sometimes towards Clifton. Her filly of 1850 was the produce it is supposed of a chance leap.
She was absent at the proper time for branding and this coming under my discretion when she and her dam Old Modesty were in the yard, I gave orders that she should be at once taken up and broken in to prevent her again going away and probably leading others with her. And I perfectly remember that I directed this should be done without branding to save time as the new brands would have occasioned a sore under the friction of the