Quebec Gazette #2874 28/01/1819 Page 1, Col. 4C.
	Whereas by a commission under the hands and seals of the Receiver General & the comptroller & solicitor of the Droits and Perquisites of Admiralty bearing date the 26th day of February 1818, I was appointed Deputy Receiver of the Droits and Perquisites of Admiralty resulting to His Majesty in his office of Admiralty for the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada and their dependencies, I do hereby in pursuance of the tenor of the said commission and of instructions lately transmitted to me, notify all persons who may have or shall have in their possession any ships or goods found derelictG, wrecks of the sea, flotsam,G, jetsamG, laganG, goods and effects of pirates and deodandG to give me information of the same in order that His Majesty's interest may be preserved, and such reasonable salvage paid to the salvors of the said ships, goods and effect as to justice may appertain: and I further notify that all persons secreting the said ships, goods & effects found floating or cast on shore on the maritime parts of these Provinces shall be prosecuted with the utmost rigour of the law.

		James	Hastings Kerr,
			Deputy Receiver General of the Droits and Perquisites of Admiralty.
	Quebec, January 16th, 1819.

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