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298 . REVEREND EZRA FISHER

Our Board of Trustees have requested me to ask that your Board of the H. M. Soc. continue to appoint me with a salary of $200, in addition to what I shall receive for teaching, as they expect I shall preach nearly every Sabbath and spend some time in visiting the churches and attending public meetings. Your Board should not neglect a single month to secure a suitable man for the mouth of the Columbia River and to have him on the way immediately. The place is too important to be neglected.

Accept, dear brother, my grateful acknowledgement of the clothes you sent me. They fit well and are the best I have to appear in public in. The Lord grant you your reward. The clothing we have received from the States has been of essential service to my family, and I know not how I should have been able to have sustained my family without them. Let our friends know that partially worn woolen clothes aid us in publishing the gospel in this new and neglected territory.

I wrote you last about the 8th and 9th of Nov. and then thought I should have forwarded these sheets in a few weeks, but the labors of my school and other duties have prevented till the present. You will soon hear from me again on the subject of your friend's commercial enterprise and by way of my report, etc.

Yours affectionately,

EZRA FISHER. Received, April 6, 1850.

Oregon City, Jan. 26, 1850. Rev. Benj. M. Hill. Dear Brother :

Your letter of June, blank day, 1849, and June 28th, were received on the 18th inst., acknowledging the receipt of sun- dry letters from me, one of which contained an order for goods. I trust you have filled the bill and forwarded the goods, with the replacing of those lost on the Undine. I think rather unfavorably of the Undine wreck, falsely so