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Nova Scotia House of Assembly Petitions and Correspondence

17 December 1807

Petition of Samuel Hart asking for the return of duties paid on rum imported from Jamaica in 1804. The produce of the province which he sent in exchange for two-thirds of the rum was shipped in another Nova Scotian vessel, that which carried the rum not having returned to Jamaica. "Dismissed 17 Decr."

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 14 number 62