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[59 crossed out] 60
Halifax Nova Scotia
The Honble [Honourable] Thomas N. Jeffery, Collector of His Majesty's Customs } To Lewis deMolitor Dr.
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1815
Octr [October] 26th | To 19,808 Rations of Provisions Issued to the American Refugee Negroes [added: In health] at Melville Island Between the 27th day of July and this date inclusive at the rate of 9d Sterling per Ration.
October 26th | 3146 Rations of Provisions Issued to the American Refugee Negroes, in the Hospital, at Melville Island, Between the 27th day of July, and this date, at the rate of 1/7d Sterling per Ration.
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Sterling Currency
742.16.0
Exchange 11 1/9. 82.10.8 | 825.6.8
249.1.2
Exchange 11 1/9 | 27,,13. 5 1/2 || 276.14.7 1/2
Currency £1102.1.3 1/2
[written in lighter ink at bottom of page]
Deduct for Spruce Beer etc.
Short Delivered - 15 ,, ,,
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£108[7?].1.3 1/2
[Written in darker ink at bottom of page]
Errors Excepted, Halifax 26th October 1815
Signed: Lewis deMolitor
Date: 1815
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 60
Nova Scotia Archives — https://archives.novascotia.ca/african-heritage/archives/?ID=213
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