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BY HIS EXCELLENCY LIEUTENANT-GENERAL
Sir John Harvey,
Knight Commander of the Most Honorable
Military Order of the Bath, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over Her Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia and its Dependencies, &c. &c. &c.

JHarvey [Signature]

To Mr William Townshend

By virtue of the power and authority in me vested by Law I do by these presents constitute and appoint you to be a Commissioner duly authorized to proceed to the isle of Sable in the said Province and to inquire into and make due report to me upon the condition position and value of the wreck of the