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Authorization for Captain William Chearnley, Commissioner of Indian Affairs to prosecute against incursions on Indian Reservations
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and waters reserved for the Indians and affording a summary proceeding before a Justice to dispossess intruders and to make the action transitory instead of local, as the legal proceedings now are

I have the honour to be
Sir
Your most obedient servant


Date: 1854

Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 82

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