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A. L. Lewis, farm and men
D. Harvey, saw and grist mill,
from March till June when Mr. Douglas returned and brought Mr. Low[e] from the coast and it is certain we are too few of- ficers for the business, and that if we had had one more officer the vessel for London would have been despatch [ed] one month earlier and ten good men would have enabled us to place at least five hundred pounds more to the credit of the District and if the season had not been fine we would not have been able to get through our work.
14. We would require here in the summer, to carry on the business on a proper scale 120 men at the lowest calcula- tion ; in the sickly season we would require more.
15. We require
2 book keepers, one to go out annually with the accounts
1 clerk for the store
1 do. retail shop
1 do. farm and men
1 do. grist and saw mill
2 do. to write in the office 1 do. casualties.
16. According to your instructions we will supply the Rus- sians with only 30 cwt. butter.
17. I have not been able to begin to build the lighter [for the steamer Beaver] and I am happy to see that I am directed not to build it, as you say the coal room of the steamer might be used as a store room if required, and the cabin also by erecting a poop cabin on deck, and on emergency the Cadboro might serve as a lighter; indeed she is doing so now; as I was afraid to send her on the open coast in the winter, I sent her with a cargo of Russian goods to be towed by the inner channel by the steamer.
18. The mill from Abernethy together with the wages of the millwright are transferred to the Hudson's Bay Company.
