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Halifax Nova Scotia
[illegible] By order of His Excellency the Right Honourable the Earl Dalhousie G J B
To Austen and Stairs
To rent of a home, occupied as a [illegible], at Halifax for clothing, provisions for the use of the refugee negroes, from the 25 March to 30 November 1817. For 8 months and 6 days at 35.00 premium...
Received from W. Richard Ingles the sum of twenty-three pounds eighteen shillings and 0 [illegible] payment of the above account for which we have required [illegible [verified?] to sum as one. Halifax 10th March (crossed out) April 1818
Austen and Stairs
Henry Wiswell