This document contains the evidence given by Edward Mayne, Commissioner of Lands for the District of Liverpool Plains, to the Committee on Police and Gaols. 

NSW Legislative Council, 'Evidence of Edward Mayne dated 19 June 1839', Report of the Committee on Police and Gaols, with the minutes of evidence and appendix (Report, 1839)

As the colony continued to expand, Britain instructed NSW Governors that the law should protect Aboriginal people. This often did not happen. The prosecution and execution of the seven men responsible for the Myall Creek massacre was an exception, and happened partly because some white colonists were prepared to give...