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Burch, two blankets, five shirts; M. A. Ford, four shirts; J. Butler, four shirts; John Orchard, four blankets; C. W. Cooke, twelve shirts; J. J. Tomerson, one blanket, one shirt; John Doran, two blankets; William Rogers, one blanket, one shirt; D. D. Dusking, two blankets, two shirts; F. T. McLentick, five shirks; Wm. Mc- Kee, one blanket; John McCord, one blanket; J. L. Snook, two blankets; J. Scudder, one blanket, one shirt; R. Mendenhall, one blanket, one shirt; John Carlin, one blanket; Wm. Olds, one blanket, one shirt; Philip Peters, one blanket, one shirt; Laurence Hall, fifty dollars in goods; A. M. Poe, five dollars in goods; Jas. R. Bean, five dollars in goods; Jackson Reynolds, five dollars in goods; Jason Peters, five dollars in goods; Franklin Martin, one blanket; Robt. Loughlin, one blanket; Geo. Frazier, four shirts; James M. Owen, one blanket, one shirt; John Menoia, two shirts; Josiah Lowrey, two shirts; J. J. Louk, two shirts; G. W. Pibern, two shirts; R. Christinan, two shirts; Stephen King, one blanket, twq shirts; John McLosky, one blanket, one shirt; Aaron Cone, two shirts; Robert Harman, two shirts; Wm. Hailey, one blanket, two shirts; Jas. O. Henderson, one blanket; Fred. Ketchum, two shirts; Joel Welch, four shirts; J. G. Fuller, two shirts; J. C. Robinson, two blankets; F. R. Hill, one blanket; Fred. Paul, wheat, five bushels; Peter A. Wice, one shirt; Charles Bolds, one blanket; Jas. E. Alsop, one blanket, one shirt; Daniel P. Barnes, one blanket, one shirt; Henry Coleman, one blanket; Wm. W. Porter, one blanket, one shirt; A. M. Peak, one blanket; W. Holman, one blanket, one shirt; I. N. Gilbert, two dollars; Fales Howard, one shirt; O. S. Thomas, one shirt; John Monroe, two shirts. Total, one hundred and twenty- five dollars in goods and wheat; blankets, sixty-seven; shirts, one hundred and four.

The first rough draft of this agreement reads, "We, the under signed, pledge ourselves in faith and honor to pay to the Nez Percés or any other Indians who will deliver, at Oregon City, Tiloukaikt and

Tamsuckie, blankets, shirts, to be placed in the hands of the

superintendent of Indian affairs, for the prompt payment of the sums affixed to our names we consider this a written obligation." On the back of the same paper, in pencil, is the result of a vote to sell the property taken from the Cay uses : Yeas Hall, Owens, Maxon, Martin, Pugh, Shaw, Nesmith, Burnett, Waters. Nays Thompson, and Lee. The vote on being reconsidered stood, not to sell: Nesmith, Hall, Thompson, Burnett, Martin, Pugh. To sell: Maxon. It is easy to see Lee s influence in the matter. It almost always prevailed: See Oregon Archives, MS., 522.

In J. Henri Brown s Political History of Oregon a valuable contribution to the historical literature of the state, he is led, no doubt, by the failing memory of the men of 47, into the error of plufing this subscription of the twenty-third of May, at Oregon