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Warrant to the Commissioners of Sable Island for support of the Island Establishment

31 December 1834. — 2 pages : 30 x 49 cm.

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By His Excellency Major-General SIR COLIN CAMPBELL,
Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Military Order of the
Bath, Lieutenant-Governor, and Commander in Chief, in and over His Majesty's Province of Nova-Scotia and its dependencies, &c, &c,&c

TO THE TREASURER OF THE PROVINCE.
You are hereby directed to pay unto The Commissioners of Sable Island the sum of four hundred pounds granted in the sessions of 1832, for the support of that establishment.

Out of the duties of impost and excise appropriated for the support of His Majesty's Government, as granted by the General Assembly of this Province, and in so doing this shall be your Warrant.

Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at Halifax this 21st day of December in the 5th of His Majesty's Reign
Annoque Domini 1834

By His Excellency's Command,
Rupert George



Commissioners named:
James H. Tidmarsh
E. Cunard
Edward Wallace

2 pages 30 x 49 cm

Date: 31 December 1834

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives RG 31 series 120 volume 2 number 733

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