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250 Commissioners of Sable Island

Bought of Jas Myers 3 barrels pork at $9 per bl $27.00
20th Sept 1841 2 do beef at 7.50 do 15.00
6 do bread containing
512 lbs at 3cts p lb 15.36
1 bag coffee containing 134 lbs 12 cts 16.8
[ ?? ???? ] bll sugar 65 lbs 7 cts 4.55
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$77.99
equal to £19.10.-
The above is correct - the provisions
having been received by Mr Darby
for the use of the establishment
W Lawson Jr
Mr Edward Duckett [ ???]
See Capt Darby's Oct 1 1841
[note???] if weights are correct
WL Jr