Supreme Court of Newfoundland
By the Honorable Sir Frederick B. T. Carter, K.C.M.G., Chief Justice, the Honorable John Hayward, and the Honorable Robert J. Pinsent, D.C.L., Assistant Judges of the said Court.

To Edward Bulger of St. John's in the Central District, Cooper GREETING:
Whereas Nicholas Bulger late of St. John's aforesaid Cooper deceased (as is alleged), lately died in testate having whilst living, at the time of his death, divers goods, chattels, credits and effects, within the said Island of Newfoundland, and within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court by reason whereof the sole ordering and granting Administration of all and singular the said goods, chattels, credits and effects, and also the auditing and allowing and finally discharging the account thereof, are well known to appertain wholly to the said Supreme Court; and we, being desirous that the said goods, chattels, credits and effects, may be well and faithfully administered, applied and disposed of according to Law, do, therefore, by these presents, having confidence in your fidelity and integrity, nominate, ordain, and appoint you the said Edward Bulger Administrator of all and singular the goods, chattels, credits and effects of the said deceased within the said Island of Newfoundland and its Dependencies, and do hereby grant you full power and authority to demand, sue for, recover and receive the same, in whosoever hands or custody they remain, and fully and freely to administer and dispose of the same according to Law; you being first duly sworn that you will well and truly administer all and every the goods of the said deceased, and pay his debts so far as his goods will extend and the law requires: and that you will exhibit a true, full and perfect Inventory of the said goods of the deceased, and render a true account of your Administration into the Registry of the said Court within six months from the date hereof, or when you shall be thereunto lawfully required; and being also further sworn that the whole of the goods, rights, chattels, credits and effects of the said deceased, within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, do not, according to the best of your knowledge, judgment and belief amount to the value of Four hundred and fifty dollars.

In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of the said Supreme Court to be hereunto affixed this Fourteenth day of August in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand, Eight Hundred and Eighty two and in the Forty sixth Year of Her Majesty's Reign.

BY ORDER OF THE COURT
Prescott Ewe???
Chief Clerk and Registrar Supreme Court

SUPREME COURT OF NEWFOUNDLAND

ST. JOHN'S, TO WIT. I do swear that I believe that Nicholas Bulger late of St. John's aforesaid Cooper deceased, died without a Will; and that I will well and truly administer all and every the Goods of the said deceased and pay his debts, so far as his Goods will extend; and that I will exhibit a true, full and perfect Inventory of the said Goods of the deceased, and render a true account of my Administration into the Registry of the said Court, within six months from the date hereof, or when I shall be thereunto lawfully required; and that the whole of the goods, rights, chattles, assets, credits and effects of the said deceased which he died possessed of, within the jurisdiction of this Court do not, according to the best of my knowledge, judgment and belief, amount to the value of Four hundred and forty dollars.
Edward his X mark Bulger
Sworn before me, at St. John's, the 14^th day of August in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty two (having been first read over & explained)
J. J. Wood
Commissioner of Affidavits.

MCNEILY & MCNEILY,
BARRISTARS-AT-LAW,
ATTORNEYS and SOLICITORS

ATHENNEUM BUILDING,
St. John's, Newfoundland,
August 22, 1882

Recd from Mr. Edward Bulger the sum of Nineteen Dollars and Fifty cents being in full for costs of Admon. To the Estate of the late Nicholas Bulger. $19.50
McNeily & McNeily