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I the undersigned Solomon Knock do solemnly swear that I have been employed in the Schr Lady Echo, with Captn John H. Darby, and by him during the year 1847 - and the whole period that the said John H. Darby commanded the above named vessel, and that there has never been any supplies or provisions, received on board the said vessel from the Supintendant of Sable Island on any occasion whatever, except in the case of some passengers that was sent on board this vessel by the Superintndant that such passengers, (which were principally two ladies the family of Capt Abbinette that had been accidentally left on the Island) were moderately supplied with a little hard & soft bread and a little milk for their passage by the Superintendant, as I am of opinion that this vessel being a private freighting vessel has no right to be obliged to take passengers on board of her and carry them from off the Island, without the Master of the said vessel first being satisfied that they had a sufficiency of provisions with them for their passage and the bread so supplied in the above case did not exceed ten or twelve pounds.
Solomon Knock
Sworn to before me at Halifax on this seventeenth day of June 1848
Thomas N Bolton
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