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Letter from Dr. Alexander Lane of Mahone Bay to the House of Assembly regarding payment for medical services provided to Lewis Hammond in 1863. and Dr. J.C. Hooper's account for medical services to Mi'kmaq for 1864-1865.
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Honorable House and that you will be pleased
to move your Honorable House to grant him
such relief as in its wisdom it may think fit and for
which as in Duty bound your humble Memorialist.
As in Duty bound will ever Pray,
Alexander Lane
MD. RN.
Mahone Bay
County of Lunenburg
19th January 1865
Hooper account mentions names of Mi'kmaq patients.
Date: 1865
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 139
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