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Please to Pay to Wm Gabriel Seldon the Sum of Five Shillings
for one Days work helping to roll up Flour out of the
Sear and Boating it over to the North Side, and you will
oblige your obedient Servant
Joseph Darby
To the Commissioners for the
affairs of Sable Island
at Halifax, N.S,
£0-5-0
Sable Island, Sept 6th 1841
(W L Jr )