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 Diary of Rev. George Gary — III 303 Friday, 27. This day come care and trouble. The debt at Mr. Ermitinger's of $1079.90, which the milling company assumed and which has been reduced by said company to $656.79, and which is now demanded from the mission, I have had to pay by drawing on Fort Van- couver for said amount. Mr. Abernethy will try to meet the payment at VanCouver, but his success is somewhat doubtful. Saturday, 28. I am examining the financial concerns for the year past. In this examination, I find unsettled accounts have come in from the departments supposed to be closed a year ago; nearly as follows: Manual labor school, $514.58; Mr. Burn's [Beers'] farm, over-credited a year ago, including mistake, $433.00; mercantile de- partment $589.51; nearly $220 of which is in a bill in favor of Ladd and company. These departments are in reality so much worse off than they were reported last year. [1846] Monday, March 2. This day I close my letter to the board to be sent over the mountains ; we are about finishing one to M. Adams and also one to H. B. Clark. In the morning of the 5th of March, I delivered these letters to Mr. T'Vault, 27 to be forwarded to the states, in hopes they will reach the places of their destinations sometime in September. The financial condition of the mission as exhibited in the above letter to the board: Estimate of property at the Dalls $1822.19; Institute owes on interest, $4,000; Judson and Wilson, $5860; H. Campbell, $3807.33; J. Robb, $1500; G. Abernethy, $1556.65; all on interest; milling company, $12193.66, not on interest; we owe $1500, leaving a balance $27- 417.63; Two notes for specie due the mission $719.39. Saturday, 7. This day I receive the account from Fort VanCouver up to February 21, 1846. At that time they owed the mission $287.65 but on the 27th of 27 W. G. T'Vault, first editor of the Oregon Spectator, appointed Post- master-General in 1845 by the Provisional Government.