Note 16 — Chapter LXI
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Mr. Douglas’s reply to the above was, in substance, a refusal to advance the means asked for in consequence of the stringent rules laid down for his government by the home company. He, however, upon the security of the governor and two of the commissioners, advanced the amount necessary to fit out the first company of Oregon riflemen, $999.59.—(See report of Loan Commissioners, Oregon Archives, p. 323.)