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Letter from Howe to J.S. Morris regarding the laying off of 500 acres for Francis and Jasper Paul on land on which they have made improvements at the head of Ship Harbour Lake. Also directs Morris to tell his deputies to warn trespassers off Mi'kmaq lands. Dated Halifax.
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Pro. Secretary
Order to lay out lands for Indian
at Ship Harbour Lake
wrote I [Shelh?] today [?]
[illegible]
wrote Pro. Secretary a transmitted
J. Kents & A. Campbell accounts
for Jasper 17th March 1849
Date: 1849
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 195
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