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will, however, we fear, preclude us from employing the Sable Island schooner in the service of the Fisheries + Revenue, during the ensuing season : we have therefore to ask of you the favor to submit this fact to His Excellency the Lieu.t Governor.

We shall in the meantime await his further orders on this subject.

We have the honor to be
Sir
your most obedient Servants.

[signatures]
Ed. Wallace
[P.?] Cunard
[H.?] Lawrence Junior

Commissioners of Sable Island