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to place the property saved by them in the [keeping?] of the Superintendent - and your petitioner would further represent that he has learned that gentlemen claiming to act as Commissioners have intimated that said men should not remain on the Island and that the constructions given to the laws of the Prov. relative to the Island renders it necessary that said men should have your permission so to remain. Therefore, confiding in the liberalty of the Law as found in Chap. fourteenth, section fifth of forty first [George?] Third and without attempting to offer to your better judgement, any suggestion as to the hardship of preventing or impeding the efforts of the unfortunate owners of wrecked property, or their agents, to rescue the remains of an adventure already too disastrous, Your petitioner humbly prays you to grant the requisite permission for the said men to remain on Sable Island for the purposes aforesaid and as in duty bound will ever pray [illegible]

James Burgen