No. 60

I have the honor to inform you that with the advice and concurrence
of my Executive Council I have given a Free Pardon to an Indian named
How-a-matcha convicted of the murder of another Native at the late
Sessions.

The accompanying letters from the Chief Justice and Mr Sebright
Green (a respectable Solicitor) wil explain the circumstances of this
case.

I thought it a fitting opportunity of declaring the policy I intended
to pursue in regard to the Indian population, and with this view had
 all within reach assembled on the occasion of How-a-matcha's
liberation.

I enclose a copy of my address, which was interpreted and fully
explained to them, and the chiefs in return expressed their
satisfaction with all I had said.

I will shortly report upon the general condition of the Indian
population. It is imperatively necessary that measures should be
taken to prevent them from being further demoralized, and I have had
such measures for some time under consideration.