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salvage only, as the value was deducted from the shallop man that dropt it__ a receipt was given for the weight of Lead received and payment was made accordingly: not being recovered for many months after it was lost it can only meet payment from the department who received it. If however there is any difficulty, I will take it to my own account and pay the salvage___
Voucher 573._____ Stores and ground rent. As number 559 I shall only observe here that I shall want my ground in May next, after which time if the public continue to occupy it I shall expect one hundred and fifty dollars a year for the rent, a sum that I could have had for it a considerable time past and can at present at any moment I can give possession
Samuel Hodgdon [with flourish]