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Letter from Thomas Crawley, Surveyor General of Cape Breton, to unnamed recipient, regarding the receipt of posters regarding trespassers on Mi'kmaq reserves.
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Sydney CB May 1837.
The Surveyor General
Indians Lands

[Capt Crawley - faintly written on lower right edge]


May relate to RG 1 vol. 431 no. 36.

Date: 1837

Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 37

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