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The financial statistics in the volumes of the Oregon Archives pertaining to the Cayuse war may be grouped as follows:

(a) The reports of the loan commissions.

(b) The reports of the Assistant Adjutant General, and of Acting Commissary-General.

(c) The reports of the Commissioners on Cayuse war claims.

(a) The report of the first loan commission (Oregon Archives, Journals, pp. 332-3) gives loans, but not definitively, aggregating about $2,600. Two of the commission and the Governor had also become personally responsible for an additional $999.59. The report for the second commission, made by Hugh Burns (Oregon Archives, Journals, pp. 286-8) gives the aggregate amount of bonds issued as $14,761.75.

(b) The Assistant Adjutant General on December 1, 1848 (Oregon Archives, Journals, pp. 326-7), reported the amount due the privates and non-commissioned officers for their services in the war as $109,311.50.

The following are the reports of the acting Commissary General. They are without dates and must be seen to be appreciated. (They are given in the form in which they appear in the Oregon Archives, Journals, pp. 327-30.)