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Halifax, Nova Scotia
Government,
By order of His Excellency for I, Sherbrooke GCB
To John S Kerry Dr
1916 April 2?
To Storage of Provisions at Dartmouth, for the use of the Negroes at Preston, between the 2 day of October, 1815, and this date inclusive, at the rate of [illegible] per Month. [British Pound symbol]18
Received payment of Jones [Tawson?] Esq.
Deputy of T.N. Jeffrey Esquire, Collector of His Majesty's Customs at this Port.
John S. Kerry
[signatures]
I do hereby Certify that I did engage the abovementioned Store, being safe and spacious, and from its proximity to the landing Wharf at Dartmouth, the most Convenient Building for placing the Provisions for the use of the Negroes at Preston and