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Charlton Street
January 25^th 1786 ...

... A packet being ordered to be dispatched to Nova Scotia this day ...

... The account of all Bills that have as yet approved  and remain unpaid, drawn by Lieu^t. Governor Des Barres  for public Works carrying on in Cape Breton ...

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And if I am informed right the Barracks he has built for the Six Companies of Soldiers are completed for one fourth the Money any Building of the like dimension had ever been Known  to have been built by Great Britain in America ...

[Signed] W. Roberts ...

Evan Nepean Esq.

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An Account of all Bills that have has yet approved ...

Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, Original Correspondence (CO 217), Colonial Office, Cape Breton "A", DesBarres, 1786, M.G. 11, C.B., Vol. 2, January 25, 1786, pp. 6-8 ( Col. Cor. (C.B.), Vol. 63, January 25, 1786, pp. 667 and 671 )

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National Archives of Canada, State Papers, Colonial Correspondence, Cape Breton, Volume 63, January 25, 1786, pp.667-671 - 1786, January 25, London Roberts to Nepean.  Sends list of bills drawn by DesBarres to be returned protested. The economy shown by DesBarres and the immense amount of work done by him with the money voted for Cape Breton  Enclosed: Account of bills unpaid

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