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Halifax Nova Scotia
Government

By order of His Excellency Sir John Coape Sherbrooke GCB &ca

To Robert Leslie Dr

1816 Army Stg Currency [headings apply to figures at bottom]

July 26th To 530 Rations Issued to the American Refugee Negroes at Melville Island [insert caret] & the Military Hospital between the 27th day of April, and this date inclusive, at 3/10 Army Stirling p[er] Ration

22. 1.8
[??] 1/14 1.11.6
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£ 23.13.8

Received Payment of Thomas N Jeffery Esquire Collector of His Majesty's Customs at this Port.

Witness Robert Leslie
[signature, probably Noonan]