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Detailed report of the Surveyor General respecting the Mi'kmaq, concluding it inadvisable to grant land to Mi'kmaq in trust or otherwise, except to "merely reserve such situations as they have been in the habit of frequenting or using." Mentions Sigogne.

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Should your Excellency in consideration of my numerous Family 14 in Number be pleased to intercede for me with His Majestys Minister for the Colonial Department or the [source] you may conceive most proper _ to be allowed my half Pay in addition to my Salary _ It would
help to [written above text so insert here]
enable me to discharge the expences of my office and to perform Services often required & indispensable & which have hitherto been paid out of my own Pocket _ [and] [when] it is considered that no allowances [has] been hitherto [made] by government but what I have Asked _ I humbly hope for favorable consideration __
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[the] Indians [alone] have put me to great
trouble & expense. my [House] has been daily
crowded with them _ not for the purpose of
obtaining Land altogether for since they have
been told they are [to have] no more to barter for Rum
or to Sell grain _ they are not anxious except
for Blankets, [Provisions], Powder & axes, which
[others] to get rid of their importunity for these
articles, have referred them to me __
C M

7 March 1815
Report of the Surveyor
General respecting the
Indians.

Many place names relating to Mi'kmaq mentioned.

Date: 1815

Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 151

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