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Custom House Halifax
30th July 1816
Sir,
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday with its enclosures, but as they are from a total stranger to me in the Department, I presume they will not require my troubling His Honor further on the subject than that. I know nothing officially of the Preston Settlement.
I beg leave to state for His Honor information that I am ready to carry into effect any Order He may think fit to give relative to any new arrangement about to be made on the subject of receiving and providing for, (at this Port under the Spirit of Earl [Castlereag?] his Letter,) such Refugees.

H. Cogswell Esq
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