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By His Excellency Lieutenant-General The Right Honourable George Earl of Dalhousie, Baron Dalhousie, of Dalhousie, Castle, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in Chief, in and ever His Majesty's Province Nova-Scotia, and its Dependencies, etc. etc,

To the Honourable Michael Wallace, Treasurer of the Province, You are hereby directed to pay unto the Commissioners of Sable Island the sum of Four Hundred Pounds for teh support of that Establishment for the present year, and for paying the balance now due to the Said Commissioner on account of said Establishment out of the Duties of Impost and Excise appropriated for the Support of His Majesty's Government, as granted by the General Assembly of this Province. And in so doing, this shall be your Warrant.

Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at Halifax, this 25th Day of August in the Fifty Seventh Year of His Majesty's regin, Annoque Domini 1817.

By His Excellency's Command,
[Hubert D. George?]

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