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456 REVEREND EZRA FISHER

cannot be hired short of from $2 to $3 per day and mechan- ics from $5 to $6. All articles of living are from 50 to 100 per cent above your city prices.

Respectfully yours,

EZRA FISHER. Received May 17, 1852.

Oregon City, Ore. Ten, May 25, 1852. Rev. Benjamin M. Hill,

Cor. Sec. A. B. H. M. Soc. Dear Br. :

A desire to be able to communicate the state of the Bap- tist cause in Benton county when I next wrote you and my being unable to visit that county till the first Sabbath in this month forms my excuse for not forwarding the concur- rent certificate of the Shilo church in Marion Co. to the ap- plication w r hich I made in the month of Mar. for a reappoint- ment as your missionary in Oregon.

At the regular church meeting the Shilo church invited Elder Ezra Fisher to take charge of the church and agreed to raise one hundred dollars for his services one-fourth of the time; also resolved to ask the Board of the Am. Baptist Home Missionary Society to appoint Elder Ezra Fisher as a missionary in the bounds of this church and to itinerate in the territory so as to promote the interests of the destitute churches and villages. The church heard the statements of Elder Fisher relating to the application which he had made for reappointment as a missionary in Oregon and concur in all the terms of the application as stated by him. Post Of- fice address is Salem, Marion Co., O. T.

Shilo Church, Apr. 3d, 1852.

AARON CORNELIUS,

Church Clerk.

N. B. By means of my being called away from the church before the clerk could attend to this application, Br. Come-