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Halifax January 26th 1816
Receiver of Mr. Richard [Best?]
Deputy of Thomas Nicholson Leffery Esquire
Collector of His Majesty's Customs at this port the sum of two pound, six [shillings?] & eight pence currency in [illegible] for drafting a contract and bond, on the 10, December 1815, for supplying the Negroes at [Molielle?] Island with provisions
[illegible] [Nenoy N Coysevell?]
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