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45) Halifax 29th December 1815

Received from His Majestys Magazine by the Government shallop [Fines?] Master---
Fourteen Tierces & One Barrel Rice Containing Eight Thousand five Hundred and eighty four Pounds and Two Tierces & One Barrel Containing Eight Hundred Pounds Salt Beef for the use of the Blacks at Dartmouth under the direction of Wm. Morris

Charles Morris
Surveyr Gen

16 [Iron Hoops?]