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Dear Sir
I enclose with a Return of Survey for the
Widow of John Cameron an account of expenses, amounting to
£4..1..1 for a survey, by Mr. McNab, of the land reserved for the
Indians settled near Chapel Island on the south Side of
the Great Bras d'Or Lake; a Description of which, with a Plan,
I shall transmit to your Office, if His Honor the President
be of opinion that, under the circumstances stated in my
Note of 26th. Feby., twelve hundred and eighty acres be
sufficient for those people without extending their
Tract into a poor and difficult country in the Rear of
Lots occupied by other Settlers.

Will you have the goodness to represent to
the President that Donald McRae, one of the [?oldest] Settlers
on the River [?Wagamatkook], having a warrant for [two hund. - crossed out]
a Lot without mention of the number of Acres, has
been cultivating for about seven and twenty years a tract
of four hundred acres, that when he petitioned, in 1827 for
that quantity of Land, he was told that he could have no
more than one Lot, a limitation that has, I think, been
extended in favor of every other applicant, under similar