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Received from the Commissioners of Sable Island
The Sum of one pound two shillings and Six pence
Currency being the amount paid by me to Joseph
Darby for board during the period I was on the Island
and now refunded me by the Commissioners

Halifax 28 March 1848
his
David X Sidney
Mark
£ 1 . 2 . 6
J. L. Roggs