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

 the method of recording these at once, and very soon fe 

 interest in the registers : the deducing of results from 

 documents would be the work of gentlemen accustome 

 such calculations, and of these there must now be man 

 the Island. 



In conclusion, I have only td acknowledge the courtes 

 James Caulfield, Esquire, Government Agent of the North- V 1 

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

 neral of Hospitals, for having so kindly granted me permissic 



