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218 claims and therefore did not come within the provision of the first article of the Treaty of Ghent, which provided for the restitution of all places captured by either side.

Meriwether Lewis. Vol. 6, pages 391-402. Dec. 1905.

Narrative. Vol. 1, pages 192-206. June, 1900.

Statement in defense of his policy addressed to some one in London. Undated, but covers the period from 1825 to 1845.

Letter to his parents, April 8th, 1804. Vol. 23, pages 268-269. Sept. 1922.

Ordway was a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and this letter was written from Camp River Dubois, their winter quarters. He gives some information about the expedition and mentions the route they are to take to the western ocean, and the great reward for this expedition they are to receive when they return-"15 dollars per month, and at least 400 ackers of first rate land."

Oregon—Its Meaning, Origin and Application. Vol. 21, pages 317-331. Dec. 1920.

Beginnings of Oregon—Exploration and Early Settlement at the Mouth of the Columbia River. Vol 5, pages 101-119. June, 1904.

Memorial praying compensation for his service in obtaining information in relation to the settlements on the Oregon River. 1837. Vol. 13, pages 175-224. June, 1912.

This was printed as Senate Executive Document No. 24, 25th Congress, 2nd Session. Slacum was an officer in the U. S. Navy and was commissioned by the Government to "obtain some specific and authentic information in regard to the inhabitants of the country in the neighborhood of the Oregon or Columbia River, and generally endeavor to obtain all such information, political, physical, statistical and geographical, as may prove useful or interesting to this Government."