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Poor negative copy of a receipt [?] of payment to John S. Harris [Morris?] for surveying a tract of land at Bear River for Mi'kmaq, laying a road through said tract, measuring and marking lots within the tract and making duplicate plans thereof.
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Digby 14th March 1828
The Province of Nova Scotia
To P. Wiswall - [?Dos]
To Cash paid John S. Harris Surveyor,
by approbation of His Excellency the Lieutenant
Governor, for surveying a Tract of Land for the
Bear-River Indians, - laying a road through
the said tract, measuring off & distinctly
marking 20 lots of 30 acres each & making
duplicate plans thereof ----------- £11 - [illegible]
- Eleven pounds -
Recd. [illegible] from
[Sir] Rupert D George
for Joseph [illegible]
[illegible] [illegible] [illegible]
31st: March 1828
![Poor negative copy of a receipt [?] of payment to John S. Harris [Morris?] for surveying a tract of land at Bear River for Mi'kmaq, laying a road through said tract, measuring and marking lots within the tract and making duplicate plans thereof.](/images/mikmaq/201606754.jpg "Poor negative copy of a receipt [?] of payment to John S. Harris [Morris?] for surveying a tract of land at Bear River for Mi'kmaq, laying a road through said tract, measuring and marking lots within the tract and making duplicate plans thereof.")
Date: 1828
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 164
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