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Nova Scotia House of Assembly Petitions and Correspondence

11 October 1811

Petition of Thomas Scott of Montrose, Scotland, asking for the bounty, hitherto granted on salt imported into the province for the fisheries, on a cargo he brought from Portugal to Newfoundland and thence to Halifax under the inducement offered by the bounty. (Holograph) Enclosed are certificates of entry, lists of sales of hogsheads of salt, etc.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 17 number 119