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Halifax 30th March 1816
Received of Thomas N. Jeffery Esquire Collector of His Majesty's Customs at this Port. by Richard Best his Deputy, one sell of Bills of Exchange Number 15. Drawn by His Excellency Sir J. C. Sherbrooke G.C.B. on the Rt [Right] Honble [Honourable] The Lords Commissions of His Majesty's Treasury for the Sum of Four hundred & Eleven Pounds Six Shillings and two Pence Sterling at 3 1/2 per Cent premium, Equal to Four hundred & Seventy three Pounds Currency, being infull [in full] for the Amount of the within Account, Agreeably to Contract Signed on the 17th December 1815 for which I have Signed Triplicate Receipts of this tenor and date,

[signed] Lewis deMolitor.

Witness [signed] J. H. Noonan