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Government
Halifax Nova Scotia
By order of His Excellency Sir J. C. Sherbrooke GCB
To G. P. Brishon Dr.
1815
[Date cut off] 30. To Surveying & running Pines on the N.W. of Hammonds Plains for the use of the Refugee Negroes Settled thereon at 19 days 20/ per Diem } 19.0.0
Cash paid Chainbearers & Axe Men, 11.0.0
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£30.0.0
I do hereby Certify that the above is the Customary and is a reasonable charge for Surveying and laying out Lots in wilderness, Lands at this time,
Charles Morris
Surveyor General
Received of Mr. Richard Best Deputy of Thomas N. Jefferson Esquire Collector of His Majesty's Customs at this Port, the Sum of Thirty Pounds in full for the above account,
Geo. P. Breburn
[Deputy Secretary? Deputy Surveyor?]
Witness,
John Liddell
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 123
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