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{Shipped in good order and condition by FRANCIS' METALLIC LIFE BOAT CO., on board the} Schooner {called the} "Windsor" {whereof} [blank] {is Master for this voyage, now lying at the Port of NEW-YORK, and bound for} Halifax N.S. {To say:}

One Surf Boat # 1901 –) 1 - 16 ft Metallic Life Boat and One Metallic Life car. 2 India rubber pails 4 Cork fenders.
11 Bars – 4.10 ft 5.16 ft 1.18 ft. & 1.15 ft. 14 Chains & balls
20 Thole pins. 3 Boat hooks. Rudder Yoke & Backboard.
1 Tin can – 1 Stove & pipe. 20 Shot or Iron Balls. 1 Pot 1. Kettle
DLD- 1 case marked as per margin 1 - Manilla Hawser 1 - Coil white line
M.No. 1 Case marked as per margin and paper parcel – [written in pencil: Mortar] – 3 Coils Manilla Cordage. 1. Tin case [written below in pencil: Signal light]

{being marked and numbered as in the margin, and are to be delivered in the like order and condition at the Port of} Halifax N.S. {(the dangers of the seas only excepted,) unto} Hon Hugh Bell Chairman of Board of Works, being paid in New York {or to} his {assigns [crossed out: he or they paying] freight for the said} Articles $65.00 {with [blank] primate and average accustomed. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Master or Purser of the said vessel hath affirmed to} 3 {Bills of Lading, all of this tenor and date; one of which being accomplished, the others to stand void.

Dated in NEW-YORK, the} 30th {day of} September {185}4
[Signature] Jacob Card

[address at left]
Hon Hug Bell Chairman of
Board of Works Halifax