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Custom House, Halifax
2nd December 1815

Sir,

I have to acknowledge the receipt of His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor's order of the 25 ultimo, and have to report for His Excellency's information, that in obedience to the order, I immediately caused an Advertisement to be made for a new Contract for Victualling the Refugee Blacks on Melville Island, to commence on the 7th Instant. The Tenders to be given in, on or beofre 2 o'clock on Friday the 8th Inst. which when Received

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To Henry H. Cogswell Esq'r
D'y Sec'y
Halifax