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Received Halifax 1 Feby 1837 from the Commifioners [Commissioners] for Sable Island. Three pounds for Wages in going to & returning to Sable Island on the Schooner Victory also .3/ for Labour performed on board said vessel.
£ 3 . 3 witness [illegible] his X mark
Patrick Shields