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Sable Island 9th Nov" 1850
Gentlemen
Having finished my second year
in Charge of this Establishment I beg to Call your
attentions to such alterations and improvements as
have during that time appeared to me really necessary
to be made that it may become more Confortable and
accomodating to those whose residences are on the
Island, as well as to those who may be Shipwrecked
here, and at the same time less burdensome on
the public funds.

1st In future the supplies for winter should be
landed here by the Middle of October at latest,
last year they were landed on the 27th 28th +29th of Oct
and we lost a great part of them by getting the package
broken and the articles wet in landing. I acquainten
you of it and was in hopes of getting them earlier this
year, but I have been disappointed, some of out stores
have been out for weeks past and other are nearly so,
and if I had not kept a supply of flour from the "Hopes,"
Cargo we would have been entirely out of that article.
My order for those supplies most needed was sent from
here by the "Dancing" on the 1st of September.

2nd I would again remind you of the necessity for
sending on sawyers, And as you have made no reply
to the proposal I made in June last for putting up a
good store here, I suppose you have not made up
your minds to have it done, and I now wish to know
if you will furnish me with materials for building
a new dwelling house as the guest of the Lake Station
and for erecting a new house on the South side of
the Island, Should a vesel be wrecked in the vicinity
of either of these Stations during the Winter season
there