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Report of the Committee "to whom the petition of certain persons trespassers upon the lands reserved for the Indians at Wagamatook [sic] in the county of ca pe Breton together with a variety of other papers connected with the subject." Dated at Halifax.
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that measures may be adopted to prevent the necessity of leaving delinquents unpunished or the prosecuting officers deprived of their just reward.
Halifax 19th April 1838
[M. M. Henry?]
Henry H. Cogswell
M Tobin
Date: 1838
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 187
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