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tive clerks, such as are now to be met with everywhere might learn 

 the method of recording these at once, and very soon feel an 

 interest in the registers : the deducing of results from these 

 documents would be the work of gentlemen accustomed to 

 such calculations, and of these there must now be many on 

 the Island. 



In conclusion, I have only to acknowledge the courtesy of 

 James Caulfield, Esquire, Government Agent of the North- West- 

 ern Province, and of S. C. Roe, Esq. Deputy Inspector Ge- 

 neral of Hospitals, for having so kindly granted me permission to 

 make use of the registers over which they exercise controul. 



