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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Net Sales at Auction £1492 15.10
Deduct expense 3 Trips of Shelburne Packet 65.
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£1387 15.10
One Third. £ 462 11.11

Halifax 15th August 1831
We the undersigned to whom the annex'd question of Salvage is referr'd do award the sum of Four Hundred and Sixty Two pounds eleven shillings and eleven pence
being Thirty three and one third percentum on the Nett proceeds of the cargo and Materials saved, to be paid to the Establishment and Salvage.

Enos Collins
[illegible]
Isp. T Tidmarsh

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