note: transcription publicly contributed - please contact us with comments, errors or omisions

Supplies required for Sable Island June 1853

3 Scythes 38 inches long
2 Rods of inch Iron
Bar of Iron 3 inches wide by 1/2 inch thick} Refined.
2 Bars of Iron 13 1/2 feet long, 3 inches wide and 3/8 thick}
2 do do 13 1/2 " " 2 3/4 " " " 3/8 " } Common.
3 [Bbr.?] Coal [pencil]

M. M.D. McKenna

PUBLIC ARCHIVES OF NOVA SCOTIA HALIFAX [faded circular stamp, blue ink]

870 [pencil]