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BY HIS EXCELLENCY LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR JAMES KEMPT, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Lieutenant-Governor, and Commander in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of Nova-Scotia, and its Dependencies, &c. &c. &c.

THE TREASURER OF THE PROVINCE, OR HIS DEPUTY, YOU are hereby directed to pay unto The Commissioner of the Island of Sable the sum of Four hundred Pounds for the support of that Establishment the present year.

out of the Duties of Impost and Excise appropriated for the support of His Majesty's Government, as granted by the General Assembly of his Province, and in so doing this shall be your Warrant Given under my Hands and Seal at Arms, at Halifax, this 30th day of Sept in the 7th Year of His Majesty's Reign, Annoque Domini 1826
James Kempt
BY HIS EXCELLENCY'S COMMAND.
Rupert [illeg.] George
Entd,
[MJ.?]