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233 ACCESSIONS. 233 Commission issued by John P. Gaines, Governor of Oregon, to Alvin T. Smith, as probate judge of Washington County, July 3, 1851. Receipt for note to Alvin T. Smith from Rev. Elkanah Walker, Sept. 13, 1858. Agreement by Revs. Elkanah Walker and Horace Lyman with Alvin T. Smith to assist in completing the "Congregational Meeting House" at Forest Grove, dated Sept. 13, 1858. Certificate of election of Alvin T. Smith to office of probate judge, issued by Wm. Geiger, Jr., June 9, 1851. Instructions from Postoffice Department, April 3, 1855. Receipt for letters and postal supplies, 'Signed by Alvin T. Smith to W. S. Caldwell, postmaster at Hillsboro, July 14, 1851. Quarterly account of Alvin T. Smith, postmaster at Tualatin, March 31, 1855. Commission issued by Nathan K. Hall, Postmaster General, United States of America, to Alvin T. Smith, postmaster at Tualatin, June 5, 1852. Election tickets, Democratic and American (Know Nothing), voted June, 1855, at West Tualatin (Forest Grove). Letter from Alvin T. Smith to Postoffice Department, Tualatin, July 31, 1855. - July 31, 1855. - Aug. 6, 1855. - Jan. 9, 1856. Letter from Auditor of Postoffice Department to Alvin T. Smith, dated October 6, 1855. Note to editor of Oregon Weekly Times from Alvin T. Smith, May 18, 1859. House Joint Resolution No. 2 introduced in legislative assembly Dec. 14, 1857. Letter from J. E. Long, "Secretary of Oregon," June 28, 1844, to Alvin T. Smith, notifying him that he in connection with Adam Hewett and James Waters had been appointed by the legislature to "view out the road leading from the Willamette Falls to the Tualatin Plains." Preceding eighteen documents donated by Mrs. Alvin T. Smith, Forest Grove. Letter. Frederick and Catherine Elgin to James Elgin, dated Clover Bottom, Ky., June 5, 1822. Deed of Wm. M. Turpin to William Taylor, Polk County, Oregon, dated Dec. 29, 1853. Letter. Col. J. B. Backenstos to Gen. Joseph Lane, May 26, 1854. Ticket of Admission to Impeachment Trial of President of the United States April 13, 1868. Presented by Judson Holcomb, To- wanda, Pa. Early History of Tacoma. Address by Thomas W. Prosch, April 12, 1905.