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Halifax November 1817

My Dear Sir,

Understanding from the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Council to whom his Excellency Lord Dalhousie referred the accounts against the Negro establishment, that the one for Medicine & which I exhibited to you had not been allowed from his Excellency conceiving Sir John Sherbrooke to have disapproved of a similar charge, permit me through you respectfully to submit the following statement for his lordship's consideration -.

In the Autumn of 1814, a number of persons were landed in Halifax from the United States and very many of them admitted into the poor house where they remained until the