GOVERNMENT NOTICE,
No.186
Colonial Secretary's Office;
Sep 17, 1830.
MR. John Batman having represented
the good conduct and useful services
of the undermentioned persons during the
period which they have acted under his dir-
ections in pursuit of the hostile Aborigines,
The Lieutenant Governor has had great
pleasure in ordering for each of them a
grant of one thousand acres of land : -

Pigeon       } Aboriginal natives of New
John Crook   } South Wales.
Black Bill,   Aboriginal native of Van
              Diemen's land.

By Command of
The Lieutenant Governor,
J . BURNETT.