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Notes to be included in report from the Committee for Indian Affairs to the House of Assembly
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(48.)
Vote in 1800 for Relief of Indians - £350.00
-Expended:-
for supplys sent by order of the Committee of [His]
Majestys' Council of the House of Assembly
to Sydney County £76.19.6
Disbursed at Halifax de de by this order. - £28.10.11
[total] 105.10.5
" ditto in Kings County by I. Crane Esq. - £19.11.9
" ditto in Cumberland by G. oxley Esq. - £16.12.0
[total] £141.14.2
2 Accounts have been laid before the Committee for certain supplys by two Frenchmen, to Indians at Torbay last winter, which they were in some degree compelled to furnish to prevent worse consequences! ___the amount £16.11.0
Date: 1800
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 48
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