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Petition from the inhabitants of Clements and Annapolis requesting measures be taken to prevent the firing of guns by the Mi'kmaq and the killing of porpoises at the Annapolis Gut during the herring fishing season.
Date: 1822
Retrieval no.: Nova Scotia House of Assembly — Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 51 number 20-22
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