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Please to Pay, to Patrick & Thomas Grace for three days
work each at the Brigantine Orpheus, for saving of Cargo, and
Materials at 5/ each per day, and you will oblige your ob't (obedient?)
humble servant, _ __
15/each __ is £ 1 -- 10 -- in whole

To E. Wallace Esq. Joseph Darby

Commissioner for the affairs
of Sable Island, at Halifax,

Sable, Island Oct'r _ 6th _ 1831


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