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Sir J.C. Sherbrooke as circumstances required, His Excellency having been well aware that the Law, as well as Lord Castlereagh's Letter could not under the peculiar situation of these People be carried into effect, the Negroe Department having been there for entirely abolished previous to His Honor's arrival and all Accounts passed in the Manner directed, up to the 20th of April.
I have only to solicit allowances for such expenses as may have been incurred up to the 20 of June for the offices of the Establishment, as well as a small account from a judical Gentleman of the Garrison, for aid to certain Individuals, and a further sum for seed potatoes, the whole of which expenses were, as I have been informed on my arrival here,
incurred