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and constant superintendance of the [illegible] of the Island,) at which time was in a state of intoxication noisy and unfit for duty.

Sworn to at Halifax
this 15th day of June
A.D. 1848

[signature] Joseph W.E. Darby

Before me
[G.W.?] Russell, J.P.