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 NOTE. Upon the death of the Author — Mr. Alexander Britton — ^his manuscripts and rough proofs were placed in the Editor's hands to prepare them for the press. The publication of Vol. II of the Historical Records OF New South Wales, containing the State Papers on which, for the most part, the present volume is founded, absorbed a large portion of the time which has elapsed since the Author's death. The work has not, however, suffered from the delay. It has been the Editor's aim to carefully keep in view the known intentions of the Author, and to present the volume to the public as nearly as possible in the form it would have taken had Mr. Britton lived to supervise its publication. The Editor desires to acknowledge the obligations he is under to the members of the History Board — ^Messrs. R. C. Walker, Chairman ; Alexander Oliver, M.A., President of the Land Appeal Court, and formerly Parliamentary Draftsman; and Professor G. Arnold Wood, M.A., Challis Professor of History in the Sydney University. F. M. B. Syd/ney, Decemher, 1894. Ittf^S;