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We the Subscribers employ'd by Government on Sable Island do hereby empower Edward Wallace of Halifax Esquire to deposit in our names in the Savings Bank now established at Halifax such sums of money as the rule of that Institution will allow out of the several notes of Hand in our possession and we further request that said Edward Wallace to deposit on the first Monday in the next year such sums as we may be entitled to receive for the period ending 31st December next

Joseph Darby, Fifty pounds of this years Wages [pound symbol] 50.0.0
John Hodgson
John Esson note of hand [pound symbol] 29.0.0 and balance of Wages next year
John his X [his mark] Stevens, note of hand [pound symbol[ 37. 10 balance of wages this year [pound symbol] 30 [Pound Symbol] 67 - 10 -

Patrick his X [his mark] Mc Keagen wishes [pound symbol] 50-0-0 of his note put in this year and [pound symbol] 50-0-0 next year, and let his Wages be for the Amount, [pound symbol] 100-0-0

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