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District of Sable Island;
General Certificates
20/ each -
or
40/- for Two

This is to Certify unto whom it may concern; that the Bearer, Martin Clye has rendred every assistance in his power in saving the Crews and Materials of Two Wrecks in the present year, viz * The Schooner Isabella on the 14th, of January 1847 and the Ship Levant on the 3rd, of August 1847, in which Cases the whole of the Crews and Materials were Saved; As Witness my hand at Sable Island, this 29th. day of December, in the year of our Lord, 1847; -

Joseph Darby; Superintendant

*viz = namely