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Provincial Secretary's Office
May 9, 1848

Sir

I have it in command from His
Excellency the Lieutenant Governor to request
that you will direct [Mr Keuk?] ti lay off 500
acres of [?] to [?] the improvements made
by Frances and Joseph Paul, at the head of
the Ship Harbour Lake, dividing it into 100
acre lots, and assigning to each respectively
100 acres. The [?] to be Reserved and
[?] granted.
Will you also direct your Deputies
generally to warn off trespassers on the Indian
Reserves, and to report to you their names
with such information touching their encroachments
as may be necessary for the guidance of the
[?] Officers of the [?].

I have the honor to be
Sir
Your Obedient Servant
Joseph Howe

John [S?] Morris, Esq.