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bringing a check drawn by
the Superintendent of the
mine or Colton for the sum
of $5264.72, and receipting
the invoice for the amount
shown in that item, $2650.,
and giving him Colton's
check for the balance?

[left margin note:] Draft mentis

A So far as the check is
concerned, I do not now re-
collect. All I recollect is
with regard to the balance,
that is, it does not occur to
me that I saw the check[crossed out] draft.

Q Let me recall to your
recollection a letter of Sisson
Wallace & Co written to Wilson.
"We paid in the matter of
the purchase from the R M
C & I Co in 1871 a payment
was made to them by our
surrendering a check that
we had received from the
mine dated October 31. 1871,
for $5264.72., and we re-
ceived the receipted invoice
$2650 and a check to balance
for $2614.72." Let me inquire[crossed out]

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