1804. — 2 pages : 30 x 50 cm.
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The Committee appointed to Report on the Expences attending the Establishment on the Isle of Sable (35)
Agreably to the directions of the House do further Report - that the number of Persons saved from Ship wrecks since the Establishment are as follows
From the Ship Hannah & Eliza of Boston 13 Persons
Ship Union ................................... do........11
Ship Stark Adder of Copenhagen .............5
a Schooner of Lunenburgh .......................4
Brig Harriott of New Castle ...................... 8
Total 41
That is appears from the Commissioners Account that Property has been saved from the wrecks as under [posted?]
From the Ship Hannah & Eliza ... 207,,4,,10
" Union 158,,8,,4
" Stark Adder 65,,19,,6
Brig Marriott 1458,,12,,4
and from a Schooner from Miramichi about
340 barrells of Pickel'd Salmon not 410
yet Brought from the Island supposed worth
£2300,,5,,0
The only salvage receiv'd and to the Credit of the Establishment, is from the Brig Harriott, amounting to £340- out of which Sum the Commissioners have paid and intend paying to persons who aided the Superintendant of the Island in Securing the property about forty pounds leaving a ballance of £299,, in the hands of the Commissioners which with a Ballance of £22,,17/- as reported in our former Report make £321,,17,,/ which Sum appears to be
2 pages 30 x 50 cm
Date: 1804
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 424 number 35
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