Nova Scotia Archives
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Account of D.B. McNab, Deputy Surveyor, for laying out land at Chapel Island
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The Province of Nova Scotia
To D.B. McNab [?Ds.]
1832
June 16th
To laying out a tract of land
for the Chapel Island Indians }
[4?] days @ 13/_ £ 3 - 0 - 0
" travel 7/6 Return 2/6 ----- " 10 - 0
" paid for provisions ------- " 11 - 1
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£ 4 - 1 - 1
D. B. McNab [?AsofLds]
Sworn before me at
McNab 16th January 1833 }
[Chas.] McNab J Peace
The above charges appear to me very reasonable
Th. Crawley
Date: 1833
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 2
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