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planting Potatoes and Corn, They therefore most earnestly pray that Your Excellency will afford them some relief, either by granting them some piece of ground near the Town or that the piece they have occupied so long may be purchased for them. Your Petitioners would also beg leave to represent that said Tribe is suffering considerably at this inclement season of the year, in consequence of the want of [Food?] aid that they now are enduring [privations?] which could hardly be imagined they would be able to suffer. He therefore begs that Your Excellency would appropriate a small portion of the contingent fund to enable them to purchase food for their immediate wants, and also to procure seed for the ensuing spring. And Your Petitioners will ever pray James his X mark Lulan. Pictou 2 March 1829