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Halifax 23 Ap.l 1847
Mess.rs Fairbanks & Allison

Request that the materials
of the Schooner Isabella
wrecked on Sable Island
be restored to the owner
a poor man belonging
to Cape Breton, without
Salvage being exacted

[written in a different hand]
Rec.d 24th —