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[?his - left side cut off] Excellency will be pleased to [illegible] [illegible] [illegible - right side faded]
[?assistance - left side cut off], as to Your Excellency [may] [deem] [proper]
and as [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [bound]
[illegible] [illegible] [illegible] prayers]
[?Migels] Toma Chief + his mark
[?Christmas OR Abraham] Toma + his mark
Matthew [?Morris] + his mark

[?Sydney - left side cut off] Cape Breton
November 20th, 1827

I do hereby certify that the above named Indians made [illegible - right side very faded]
[?scibed - left side cut off] their marks to the foregoing Petition, before me, [?that]
was written at their request, and that the facts contained
[?herein - left side cut off] were communicated by them.

Jos. [?Mead]
Clerk of the Peace
[?Sydney - left side cut off] Novr. 20. 1827.

From my knowledge of these poor people and the great change that has
[them - left side cut off]] [plus] in their circumstances within the last twenty years and [the]
many [pitiable] objects [that] [present] themselves in our [?Huts]. I [am] [induced]
[to - left side cut off]] think that the above statement is a faint [picture] of their deplorable
situation [more] especially of the sufferings of [them] [who] [being] [expelled] [by]
[ ?ge - left side cut off], [am] totally unable to provide for themselves and cannot expect much
[assistance - left side cut off] from relatives whose condition is scarcely better than [their]
[own - left side cut off]
H. [?Crawley] J.P