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Warrant to pay the Commissioners of Sable Island £400 to support the Establishment at Sable Island

31 December 1839. — 2 pages : 30 x 48 cm.

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C. Campbell

By His Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Campbell, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in Chief in and over Her Majesty's Province of Nova-Scotia, and its Dependencies, etc, etc, etc,

The Treasurer of the Province.

You are hereby required to pay unto the Commissioners for Sable Island the sum of Four Hundred Pounds granted in the Year 1835 toward the support of that Establishment for that Year, Also Four Hundred pounds granted in the Year 1836 toward the support of the same Establishment for that same year, out of the Duties of Impost and Excise appropriated for the support of Her Majesty's Government, as granted by the General Assembly of this Province, and in so doing this shall be your Warrant.

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£400
400
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£800
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Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms at Halifax, this 31 day of December in the [2nd?] Year of Her Majesty's Reign, Annoque Domini 1838

By His Excellency's Command,
[Haphero?] George

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2 pages 30 x 48 cm

Date: 31 December 1839

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives RG 31 series 120 volume 2 number 1164

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