No. 12., July 3, 1863.

No. 12.

I, E. B. A. Taylor, acting receiver general and treasurer of the Bahamas, do hereby certify that the British steamship Douglas, of 312 tons net, or freight tonnage, Wilson, master, cleared at this office fur the port of St. John, N. B., on the twenty-third day of January, 1863, with an assorted cargo, and that she was entered at this office on the seventeenth day of February next following as having arrived from the port of Charleston, S. C, with a cargo of 592 bales of cotton, her name having been changed to the Margaret and Jessie, and her nationality changed, as was shown by a register issued out of the said port of Charleston, S. C.; further, that the said steamship Margaret and Jessie was cleared at this port for the port of St. John, N. B., on the following days, to wit: On the twenty-third day of February, 1863; twenty-first day of March, 1863; eighteenth day of April, 1863, and the sixteenth day of May, 1863— each time with an assorted cargo; and entered at this port as coming from the port of Charleston, S. C., on the following days, to wit: On the fourteenth day of March, 1863, with a cargo of 861 bales cotton; on the eleventh day of April, 1863, with a cargo of 821 bales cotton. From Wilmington, N. C.: On the eleventh day of May, 1863, with a cargo of 684 bales cotton; and on the third day of June, 1863, as coming from Charleston, S. C, with a cargo of 756 bales cotton.

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