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We, John Hallet, Guy Morris, and John Myers, 42
also Samuel Gibbon, and each of us whose names
are hereunto [subscribes?], Do. voluntarily Engage
with Michael Wallace and the other Commissioners
appointed by His Excellency Sir John Wentworth Bash
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, for the purpose of
managing and superintending the affairs of the Establishment
on Isle Sable, to proceed in such vepel or vepels
as the said Commissioners shall direct, to the said
Island, and there to serve under the orders of James
Morris Esq. who in appointed by Government to be
ouvreir and superintendant of the work and duty to be
performed in the said Island by the orders of the said
Commissioners, and to Conduct ourselves. soberly
promise and find ourselves by these presents, so long
as we remain on said Island, to obey with cheerfulness
and willingness, all the lawful orders and Commands
of him the said James Morris. by night as wile
as by Day, not only in the service and work he may
judge proper and necessary to be done upon the Island
and on, or about its shores ; but likeways in and
especial manner, to exert our uhonest endeavours to save and
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