250
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-