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Letter from Chearnley to Provincial Secretary reporting expenditures of the Department of Indian Affairs for 1860.
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The Wigwam he
occupies is removed
by a length
[Great] distance
from the rest. __
The [?whole] of the
lot men women
and children it
seemed have been
lately]vaccinated
and they are fully
[alive] to the [importance]
of Keeping
out of harms
way. I will Keep
a fatherly eye upon
them so do not
be "alarmed"


Date: 1861

Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 123

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