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We, John Hallet, Guy Morris, and John Myers, also Samuel Gibbon, and each of us whose names are hereunto subscribed, do voluntarily engage with Michael Wallace and the other commissioners appointed by His Excellency Sir John Wentworth Bartr Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, for the purpose of managing and superintending the affairs of the establishment on Isle Sable, to proceed in such vessel or vessels as the said commissioners shall direct, to the said Island, and there to serve under the order of James Morris Esqr, who is appointed by Government to be overseer and superintendent of the work and duty to be performed in the said Island by the orders of the said commisioners, and to conduct ourselves soberly honestly and dilligently. And we do each of us promise and bind ourselves by these presents, so long as we remain on said Island, to obey with cheerfulness and willingness, all the lawful orders and command of him, the said James Morris, by night as well as by day, not only in the service and work he may judge proper and necessary to be done upon the Island and on, or about its shores, but likeways in an especial manner, to exert our utmost endeavours to save and protect.