, 1859-06-17

Seal oil, $s per gallon; days appraising SO
horses, at $40 per day; 2 days more for same
$50; laying out road $50, s. per day; salt, s.
per bushel; -four, 10 per barrel; candles, 2 per
h.; sugar, 90 cents per ID; two more days ap-
praising horses, 500; five days laying out road
per day, $50; blankets, 50 each; shoes, per
pair; pants, 8 per pair; capotes, 12 each; vests,
4 to z; shirts, 4; drawers, 3; -four, 10 cents per
h.; potatoes, per bushel; pork, 80 cents; gun
powder, $3.50 per lb.; coffee, 90 cents per h.;
bacon, 80 cents per ID. Thirty Of the "A mem.
bers Of this company, including the captain, are
believed not to have been in actual service until
the 1st of January, 1856, as that number charge
to have furnished themselves with rations and
forage up to that day. On the Goth Of January,
only 26 days before the discharge Of the com.
pany, Capt. Bratton contracted bill with the
Hudson Bay company, for clothing and variety
Of other articles amounting to 50 649 60, in which
he purchased 80 pair pants 80 shirts 80 blankets,
30 pairs Of shoes, so capotes, l2 caps, and IL
vests at prices as above.
Richard Lane, Q private Of the company,
charges, in addition during the same period for
his services as quartermaster and commissary
clerk, &C., from Jan. to Feb. IL, 1856, ~ days,
at g. per day, $S4 which is approved by the
commissioners, and paid for in public property.
Tie company appears to have been stationed
somewhere on Lewis river, and under the head
Of Record Of Events" &C., there are no remarks.
None Of the property purchased is accounted
.br.
Company N, Captain c. H. Ecaton,
mounted Puget Sound Rangers, 48
strong, from Oct 90, 1856, to Jan.
81, 1S56-Amount $4,2e2 80
Cancelled as before 676 %
Outstanding 3,707 Is
4,
cents; mule, 1866; cheese, 40 cents; saddles,
$29 80 each; oats, 81 per bushel. The expendi.
lures on account Of this company are more eco
nomical than any accounts that have yet been
examined, although they arc inde6natc, and there
is great want Of data. In many Of them agross
amount is certified to be due for articles pur-
chased or service rendered, without stating items,
dates, or rates Of charge; yet, notwithstanding
these accounts bear internal evidence that the
command was hastily raised, for q sudden emer-
gency, and that consequently the accounts are
of the nature Of the service in which they were
contracted. The company was raised ut Olym-
pia, but evidently operated some distance from
where they were raised, for, Of the whole num-
Der, there was but one member except the cap
tain, who has preferred claim for supplies Of
any kind TO the company. They appear to have
hal q Skinni<h with the Il dams on the 2sth Of
October, in which one man was killed, one wound
ei, and twelve horses lost; after which the pa.
p,rs indicate that they returned to Olympia and
remained there until discharged. As general
thing, these prices seem to have been reasonable,
to which, however, there are some exceptions;
there, as in some other instances, the commits
sioners have undertaken to raise prices beyond
what was originally charged BY the claimant and
approved the account accordingly. There Is an
account Of Joseph Cornell fDr two horses which
are certified to have been furnished to privates
McAllister and Wallace, and their value charged
against them upon the roll, which is not the fact
as shown on reference to the roll. None Of the
property purchashed Is accounted for. The aver.
age strength Of the company for its whole period
Of its service was only twenty-seven. No ORR
ginal accounts are offered they all being copies
Expenditures BY acting Gov. q. H. Mason from
October, 1856, to February 1856:
Amount $7,700 90
Cancclltd BY payment in public prop
erty BIO 90
Outstanding 1855 30
None Of the property purchased by Gov. Ma
son appears to be accounted for. The accounts,
except one, are all copies, and are exceedingly
loose not to say eXtravagant John r. jackson,
a captain Of company K, charges % per day for
the board Of some recruits before they were mus
tered into service Of which there Is no evidence,
or means Of ascertaining. lie also charges Is
per day for forage and provisions for team and
driver, and 90 per night with br, akiast and sup
per, Gor various express ridtrS from September,
1856, before the war broke out to April, 1856,
and with a Jumping charge Of $3.50 for hauling
ammunition and provisions in February, 1856.
R N. Walker chOrgcs s. per day, with $40 per
week for board, for services as ordnance officer,
from Oct. Is, 1855, Jan. 90, 1856, although he
Is not borne on any roll as such. James n. Hunt
charges $5 per day and % 80 cents per day for
his expenses In going from Olympia to VancOu.
yer island and back, nineteen days, water travel
all the way.