Nova Scotia Archives

Footprints in the Sand

Pre‐1867 Government Records for Sable Island

Referee's Award for salvage off the ship Courser, Lewis Russell Master

15 August 1831. — 4 pages : 30 x 49 cm.

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of this (there is a cut in the paper and wording is ill) property your
award being final according to
Law
I have the Honor to be
Gentlemen
Your obedient servant
Mich Wallace
Commissionar for the affairs
of Sable Island

The Honorable Enos Collins
John (ill)
Jons H Tidmarsh (eight?)

Includes letter from Michael Wallace outlining the issue of how money earned from auctioning the Courser's salvage should be paid out, and asking for judgment from the three referees: Enos Collins, John Albro and James H. Tidmarsh.

Also includes decision by said referees, awarding 462 pounds to the Humane Establishment as Salvage.

4 pages 30 x 49 cm

Date: 15 August 1831

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives RG 31 series 120 volume 2 number 448