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BY HIS EXCELLENCY
Lieutenant-General Sir JOHN COAPE SHERBROOKE, Knight of the Moft Honourable Order of the Bath, Leiutenant-Governor and Commander in Chief in and over His Majefty's Province of Nova-Scotia, and its dependencies, &c. &c. &c.

To the Honorable MICHAEL WALLACE, Treasurer of the Province,

You are hereby directed to pay unto The Commissioners of the Island of Sable, the sum of Four hundred pounds, being the amount of the grant of the General Assembly for that Establishment the present year.
£400.0.0
out of the Duties of Impoft and Excife appropriated for the Suport of His Majefty's Government, as granted by the General Affembly of this Province. And in fo doing this fhall be your Warrant.

GIVEN under my Hand and Seal at Arms at Halifax, this 23d Day of Decem 1811 in the 52d Year of His Majefty's Reign
J. C Sherbrooke

BY HIS EXCELLENCY'S COMMAND
M George

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