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[verso]

places when [?] Allan had then [?]
last year will be [?] be a [?researcer?]
with [?] [?] - Charley [?] a charge
of $40 for you w/ commercial work with [?or]
[?] - a cheque for $40, in here for [?]
Sept for your September salary, both of
which you can get as you pass here -

For what eggs you can [?]
31[?] at [?] Island of you think.
if necessarry, I stay [?] there, but do
not lose sight of your [?] in moderation
at time for work [?] -

All will here [?] [?]
Brother Lewis who is very [?] luckier
and I do not think will ever [?secure]

I am yours many thank

Samuel Wilmot

[recto]

[? ] Oct 29/87[?]

Mr. Tilton Esq
Deuputy Minister of Fisheries
Ottawa

Sir

I beg to report herein
the exault of my inspection of [?]
[?] on the [?] river, and the
'Fish-pass' [?] there for the purpose of
carrying fish over that chasm/dam.

The [?] river is a large stream and flows through
an [?] section of the Country,
with several branches, and enters
Lake Huron at the town of Southhampton.
About three miles above its entrance
into the [?], a dam has been built
[?] the river to raise ahead of water
for driving a flouring mill :- this
dam forms a sufficient barrier to
prevent many of the fish from passing
up river to their [?excessive] feeding,
and breeding points on the {?Massi}
river, and many of its branches -

This dam is known as "[Derevier?] dam" and from representations made
to your Department some years back
[?] [?] [?] along the

[verso]

places when [?] Allan had then [?]
last year will be [?] be a [?researcer?]
with [?] [?] - Charley [?] a charge
of $40 for you w/ commercial work with [?or]
[?] - a cheque for $40, in here for [?]
Sept for your September salary, both of
which you can get as you pass here -

For what eggs you can [?]
31[?] at [?] Island of you think.
if necessarry, I stay [?] there, but do
not lose sight of your [?] in moderation
at time for work [?] -

All will here [?] [?]
Brother Lewis who is very [?] luckier
and I do not think will ever [?secure]

I am yours many thank

Samuel Wilmot

[recto]

[? ] Oct 29/87[?]

Mr. Tilton Esq
Deuputy Minister of Fisheries
Ottawa

Sir

I beg to report herein
the exault of my inspection of [?]
[?] on the [?] river, and the
'Fish-pass' [?] there for the purpose of
carrying fish over that chasm/dam.

The [?] river is a large stream and flows through
an [?] [?] of the Country,
with several branches, and enters
Lake Huron at the own of Southhampton.
About three miles above its entrance
into the [?], a dam has been [?]
[?] the river [?] twice ahead of [?]
for driving a flouring mill :- this
dam proves a sufficient barrier with [which?]
prevent many of the fish from passing
up river to their [?excessive] feeding,
and breeding points on the {?Massi}
river, and many of its branches -

This dam is known as "[Derevier?] dam" and forms [?---utations] made
to your Department [?] years back
[?] [?] [?] along the