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Halifax 10 August 1853
Messrs Francis Webber, Anthony Webber and John Duncan- Ingram's River
Gentlemen

I am instructed by John Sillars Esquire Commissioner of Her Majesty's Crown Lands and Captain Chearley Commissioner for the Indians to institute proceedings against you for various and continual trespasses on the land reserved for the Indians, cutting logs there on, flooding the same, and by the mode of using the [illegible] doing them serious injury and preventing them from taking fish. As the Government are bound to protect the Indians in the peaceful enjoyment of the land reserved for them I request that you will call at my office and enter into some arrangement by which you may
escape