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Receive’d Halifax 19th May 1832 from the Commissioners for the Affairs of Sable Island Eight Pounds 6/8 being my proportion of £90 Allowed by the Referees for services performed in assisting to save the cargo and Naturals of the Brig Orpheus

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£ 8.6.8 John Hodgson
Witness at Sable Island May 31st 1832
Joseph Darby