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49 in your late fathers [time?] and handed over by you to me JS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Mr Fluker 21 July/56 You have forgotten to send me an account of the sale of the Kedge and piece of Timber. Let me have it as early as possible JS Marginalia: F ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr J Stephenson DSir 24 July/56 Vide your last of which I have a copy - mine adds £24:15:6 - which includes other wreck besides that sold by L-'.. Stewart to which you will have to add proceeds of sale of No 112 paid by Mr Barron to your late father - also proceeds of 124 - which L-' Shacklock informs me was sold by your father as Lot No 17 in 1855 for 14/11 - Be so good as to give me a detail of the [?] against which the £5:3:0 should have been charged - as I have paid all the Salvages without taking that sum into account as I was not aware of those charges being against them I must however endeavour to obtain the return of some - if I cannot get all Be so good as to write on this paper and return it as otherwise- I lose the thread of the subject The Commission on all the lots of wreck left by your father Viz: Anchors & c at Bridlington and wreck along the Coast - except for the lots in the list you have amounts to £12:17:5 JS Marginalia: S

The Collector, Customs [Lyme? Lynn?] Sir 25 July 1856 In January last Mr Spelman Woodhouse, Master of the vessel "Dash" of your port picked up at Sea a boat belonging to the "Wyke Regis" of Poole - the Salvage whereon is One Guinea - Herewith I send you Form 8 to which I will thank you to obtain the signatures of Mr Woodhouse and return it to me - where I will send £1.1.0 to deliver to him. Your early attention will oblige J.S. _________________________________________________________________ Messrs Bramble & Son Merchants, Bridlington Quay Sirs 26 July 1856 Sometime back you had delivered to you - 1 Iron Stock Kedge and Warps 75 fins for which you gave a Receipt on Form 13.The Board of Trade have now called upon me to furnish form Bo. 8 which I herewith enclose and will tahnk you to fill it up and return it at your earliest convenience. J.S. _________________________________________________________________ Querys Wreck Accounts Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade No. 1 to 6 Whitehall 25 July 1856 1848 Sir I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to transmit to you the following Queries and Observations that have arisen on your Account with this Department for the Quarter ending 31st March 1856 to which I am to request that separate answers and explanations may be given without delay. I am

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51 Lt Shacklock RN Bridlington Quay 26/7/56 Letter sent with salvage Receipts amounting to £ 3: 18: 10 from [no] 140 - 1854 to 1601855 JS

Mr. J Stephenson Bridlington Quay 26/7/56 Letter with duplicate wreck account JS

Board of Trade wreck accounts [Marine] Department [Collector] of [customs] & [Receiver] of wreck [Hull] with reference to paragraph 82 of the "Instructions to Receivers of wreck" you are requested to forward to this department without delay your accounts and vouchers for the Quarter ended 30th June 1837 - In case you have nothing to account for or to report a letter to that effect should have been and in [future] is to be, [transmitted] at the [expiration] of the Quarter. [N W Williams] Board of Trade 26th July 1856 The accounts will be forwarded in a few days. JS 28/7/56

The Secretary, Marine Dep. Board Trade. London No. 1 to 6 / 1348 wreck account 25 July 1836. Sir. 30 July 1856 With reference to your query above [noted], - returned the following day [annexed] is the reply of [Messrs] [Brambles] to my application for a Receipt on Form W[?] 8 - [This] circumstance occurred in my first putting the M: S. [actinto]

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