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after taking an Inventory of them in presence of Mr Daly a copy of which I enclose you —

Gentlemen if I may presume to give you an opinion as regards the carrying of passengers with wrecked goods from this Island to Halifax, it would be simply this, that if possible the goods and the people should not go in the same vessel particularly Liquor and in the present case Two vessels of 50 tons each or thereabouts would have carried all the present concern one might have taken the property and the other the people, and no risk no anxiety, and no mighty preparations to guard against mischief, light vessels are always better here than heavy ones, they can work to more advantage, and I have no doubt they can be had as low and rather lower — at the request of Cap.t Miles, I sent our new cooking stove out into an outhouse for the use of the Sailors, and he promised me that if they damaged it he would make it good, they have done so with dancing and fighting they have broke off the lower doors, and the stove is not worth so much as it was by Forty Shillings for which I hope you will make a charge.

I remain Gentlemen your faithful and obedient
Servant
(signed) Joseph Darby

[address at lower left]
To the Commissioners
for the affairs of Sable Island