"Official form on blue paper - evidence -
Henry Harris, auctioneer, 27 October 1854, PROV, VPRS5527/P0 Unit 1, Item 70 Recognizance of Bail
Be it remembered, that on 27th day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty four
Albert Hurd of Ballarat in the Colony of Victoria
Henry Harris of Ballarat in the said Colony Auctioneer, and Constable [illegible] of Ballarat in the said Colony [illegible], personally come before me and the sum of five hundred pounds, and the said
Henry Harris and Constable [illegible] the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds each of good lawful money of Great Britain, to be made and levied of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, in the use of our said Lady the Queen, her Heirs and Successors, if the said Albert Hurd shall in the condition indorsed.
Taken and acknowledged the day and year of your first above mentioned at Ballarat in the said Colony before me
EPS Sturt