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Secretary's Office
Halifax 30 Dec 1817

I do Certify that the preceeding page contains a true Copy of an Original Abstract wh ich together with the Original accounts and vouchers for the expenditures and [excerpt?] of the several sums therein specified [transcriber's note: beginning of inserted text in original] amounting to £ . . [transcriber's note: end of inserted text in original] have been transmitted by His Excellency the Right Honble the Earl of Dalhouse [sic] to the Right Honble Earl Bathurst.

[TC? Could be H with the crossbar faded]