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Sundry accounts against Government for supplies for Black Refugees to December 1815 and 16 January 1816
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#99
Halifax Nova Scotia
Government
To: Ino. Hyacinthe Noonan [Dr?]

1815
December 16 - To Amount of Salary as Clerk to the Refugee Negroe Establishment, at Melville Island, from the 27th October to the 16th December 1815 at the rate of £200 Sterling per Annum } £31,, [numbers missing from cut off page]

1816
January 26th - To Amount of Salaray as Clerk to Refugee Negroe Establishment, from the 17th December 1815 to the 26th January 1816 inclusive, at the rate of £100 Sterling Per Annum, Reduced per order His Excellency Sir J. Sherbrooke GCB in Council } [writing on right side of page cut off]

[Total amount cut off]

Received Payment of Mr. Richard Best Deputy to Thomas Nicholson Jeffery Esquire of His Majesty's Customs, for which [I have] Signed Triplicate Receipts of [this tenor, [cut off]

Ino. H. Noonan

Witness
John Wallace


Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 99

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