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this place. A man named Wm Stump keeps a school a few miles off - sent word to him that he should have [pounds sterling] 5 for each Indian Boy he would teach to read Murray's First Book.
John James Boutillier - order for Potatoes
Arch. McDonald - Picks and Hoes.

Visitted this place in autumn -- crop raised - but little improvement.


Halifax, May 6, 1842.


My dear Sir,
Will you be kind enough, at your leisure, and whenever your avocations call you to the neighborhood, to survey the 300 acre lot at Ingraham's River, reserved for the use of the Indians, running the lines all round, and marking the boundaries so that they cannot be mistaken by Indians or Whites. Will you then divide the land into 6 lots of 50 acres each, giving, if possible, a River front to them all, and furnishing such a description of bounds, &c. as will enable me to convey a title to individual Heads of Families, in the way contemplated by the Act of last Session. Your expenses will of course be paid out of the funds placed at my disposal. The cleared lots must be included in the share of those by whom improvements have been made.
Mr. Titus Smith