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Halifax N. Scotia
120

Goverment

To Thomas Johnstone

For the undementioned Services undertaken for
the use of the Refugee Negroes settled at Hammonds
Plains by order His Excellency Sir J C Sherbrooke GCB


1816 For my service as Ifsuer of Provisions Currency
to the Refugee Blacks from 10th Nov
1815 to the 26th January 1816
is 78 days
[?] Currency for [>um] [Pound]7" 16 0

Received of M Richard Bes[z?]
Deputy of Thomas N Jeffery Esquire
Collector of HM Customs at this Port
the Sum of Seven Pounds Sixteen
Shillings Currency in full for
the above Accountant,
Witnefs,

John [?]iddell Thomas Johnsfon