Editorial note — FOOTNOTES
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"N. B. The whole of those charges (the latter of which I by no means conceive the U States under any just obligation to discharge) cannot if my men have recently left the country, amount to more than $2000. 1200 of which I only pledged the faith of the Govt. for—Pike"
The other one of the two inclosures is the following memorandum or indorsement of the State Department:
"The account against Pike inadmissible save the $1200 advanced him in Cash—and what may have been advanced to his men left in Mexico at the rate of $26¼/100 p. day—the Sum he asked for their subsistence—It appears to have been understood by Capt Pike that he was to find subsistence for himself & Party and that the Spanish Govert would meet the other expences of his Journey."