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Certificate from Committee of His Majesty's Council with regard to certain receipts, May and June 1817
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97
Halifax 15th May 1817-
Received from Mr. Richard Inglis the Sum of sixty four pounds ten Shillings Currency being in full for Five hundred fifteen Bushels of Seed Potatoes at b/ per Bushel purchased by him for the Refugee Negroes -
£114 10.0[lbs?]
Sig Wm Swan
Me the undersigned do hereby Certify that the above is a true Copy of the Original Receipt produced [was?]
John Black [Neutis?] Haliburton Phil [Woodhouse?]} Committee of Hill Council


Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 97

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