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CHARLES HENRY CAREY


quest, and to give what they feel free to give for the pro- motion of this object.


Members of the society.

his

Joseph x Gervais mark

Deportes x McKay

John x Hoard

John x Turner

Xavier x La-de Rout

Joseph x DeLoire

Charles Roe

S. H. Smith

James O'Neal

Webley J. Hawkshurst

Calvin Tibbets

Winslow x Anderson Plante Rondeau Pecord Furcier


The following are not members. $Cts

Pierre x Depot 8 00 A. Erquet

John B. x Perrault 8 00 George Gay

400 P. x Billick

400 6 bush wheat

400 400 6.00 5.00


6 bush wheat


Chas. x

Chas. x

Andre x

Louis x

T. J. Hubbard 8 00

Etienne x Lucier

Slisha Ezekiel

The undersigned jointly promise to pay the balance be the same more or less

Jason Lee

Daniel Lee

Cyrus Shepard

P. L. Edwards

To the foregoing request Messrs. Young & Carmichael subsequently returned the following answer.

Wallamette 13th Jan. 1837. To the Oregon Temperance Society,

Gentlemen,

Having taken into consideration your request to re- linquish our enterprise in manufacturing ardent spirits we therefore do agree to stop our proceedings for the present. But Gentlemen the reasons for our first begin- ning such an undertaking was the innumerable difficul-