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ORIGIN OF THE NAME OREGON 105

Cash likewise to be Advanced for purchas-) ing the 800 Steel Traps. J

Money also to be Advanced for purchas-l ing Wampum and other Necessarys as above}- Expressed.

The Men will take their own Arms with them, so that the [Government will be at no Expense for them, but an Ar- mourer to keep them in Repair.

[Endorsed] PLANT S GEN'L.

A proposal by Robert Rogers Esq., formerly Major Com- mandant of Mis Majesty's Rangers in North America, for the discovery of a North- West Passage.

Reed. August 12) Read Sept. 6 J1765 Copied from the original Read & Corrected S. May Osier.