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Thomas Phillips Jr Esq late

Mayor

of the Boro' of Newport in the

County of Monmouth maketh

Oath and Saith that he recently
____in the General Post

rece-d ^the

Letter hereto annexed

signed Fras Burgess

Commissioner of Police
____dated

and ^ Police Office Birmingham
& addressed to -- Nov-r 13 1839
T Phillips Esq Mayor of Newport x
And this Deponent first
________he verily believes
Saith that ^ the name
"Fras Burgess" subscribed
to the said Letter is in the
proper hand writing of the

Fras Burgess whom the Dep-t

hath heard & believes to be

a Comm-r of Police for the

Town & Boro' of Birmingham

in the Co-y of Warwick

[with note in l. margin]
x and bearing
the Birmingham
Post mark
dated Nov 13
1839

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xd
D_ep [?]
Information of
[overwritten with X]

T.Phillips Junr Esqr

relative to Cardo -

disch[ar]ged

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