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Abstract of payments for blankets, clothing, provisions, seeds, axes, gunpowder, shot and other articles distributed among the Mi'kmaq by order of James Kempt in pursuance of the Indian grant of the legislature for relief.
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Abstract of Payments for Blankets, Cloathing [Clothing], provisions,
Seeds, axes, hoes, gunpowder, shot and various other articles
distributed among Indians, by order of His Excellency Sir
James Kempt, in pursuance of the Legislative grant of £250
made for their relief in 1827.

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£ | s | p
Paid William Allan's Bill __ __ __ __ __ __ __ No 1 || 10 | 0 | 5
Revd Mr Carroll's __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 2 || 2 | 13 | ~
Bills transmitted by Mr. Heckman Esqr __ __ 3 || 5 | 18 | 6
Bills transmitted by T.C. Haliburton Esqr __ __ 4 || 6 | ~ | ~
William Allan's Bill ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ 5 || 71 | 2 | 6
Do ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ 6 || 7 | 9 | 6
[Macara's] Bill for Medicines __ __ __ __ 7 || 2 | 0 | 11
William Allan's Bill ___ ___ ___ __ __ __ 8 || 9 | 18 | ~
Chas E Dickson's Bill ___ ___ ___ __ __ __ 9 || 5 | 1 | ~
William Allan's Bill ___ __ ___ __ ___ 10 || 20 | 17 | 6
Do ___ __ ___ __ ___ __ ___ 11 || 26 | 1 | 5 1/2
Mr [Leonard's] [illegible] ; Cape Breton __ __ 12 || 16 | ~ | ~
C.E. Budds acct ___ __ ___ __ ___ 13 || 27 | 16 | ~
William Allan's Bill ___ __ ___ __ ___ 14 || 39 | 4 | 6
Judge Wiswall / through Joseph [Allison] [?afc]
the account of Mr. Harris [?Dy - Deputy] Surveyor
for laying out lots of land on bear River }
for the Indians _ The receipt is on the plan in
the Secretary's Office _____


Total £ 261 | 3 | 3 1/2


Lists recipients of grant, none of whom seem to have been Mi'kmaq. Mentions Judge Wiswall and Bear River.

Date: 1827

Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 163 1/2

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