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D ,, _____ Govrnment in account with Thomas N. Jeffery Esquire Collector of His Majesty's Customs for the Port of Halifax Nova Scotia charged with receiving and providing for the Refugee Negroes from the United States of America, Between the 27th of April, and 26th July, inclusive 1816 _____ [Cr?]

1816
Currency
Date of Bills
No. of Bills
Starting
Currency

July 26
To amount of the foregoing Abstract
679 3 3
1817
[date?]
[illegible]

By His Excellency the Right
Honorable the Earl of
Dalhousie's Bill of Exchange
of this date, drawn [by?] Him
on the Right Honorable
the Lords Commissioner
of His Majesty's [illegible]
At 30 days ~ _____________
Premium 67 Per Cent
Exchange 11 1/[9?] Per Cent

576 12 11 1/2
34 11 11 3/4
611 4 11 1/4
67 [14?] 3 3/4

£ 679 3 3

Halifax Nova Scotia 3rd January 1817. I do hereby acknowledge to have received from His Excellency the Right Honorable the Earl of Dalhousie [ECB?] the above mentioned Bill of Exchange amounting to Two Hundred & Seventysix Pounds twelve shillings and Eleven Pence 1/2 Sterling Equal to Six Hundred and seventy nine Pounds three Shillings and three pence, Currency, forwhich I have Signed Triplicate Receipts of this tenor and date, (to serve as one)

[signature illegible]