Petition to Ainslie: Petitioner has a vessel engaged to load lumber at the Head of St. George's Bay, and hopes by the following summer to have many vessels. He asks permission to cut pine timber on the N.W. Arm or St. George's Bay and at the entrance to River Denny.
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