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I J. G. Kittredge Jr. do hereby
certify that on the twenty eight day of
October A.D. 1861, I was travelling with
J. P. H. Wentworth Supt. Agent of Indian
Affairs of So. District Cal, on official
business connected with his office, and that
the matter being urgent in order to [illegible]
our engagements with the Indians the
horses were greatly distressed by the ra-
[illegible] with which we were obliged to
drive, and that one of the

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State of California
City and County of San Francisco SS.
On this Fifteenth day of
December A.D. One Thousand, Eight Hundred and Sixty Two before me
W. O. Andrews, a Notary Public in and for said city and County, duly commissioned and sworn, per-
sonally appeared the within named
J. G. Kittredge Jr
whose name is subscribed to the annexed Instrument as a party thereto, personally known
to me to be the individual described in and who executed the said annexed instrument, and hither said
J. G. Kittredge Jr. duly acknowledged to me that he executed the same freely
and [illegible] and for the uses and purposes therein mentioned.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
Official Seal, the day and year in this Certificate first above written.
W. O. Andrews
Notary Public

Official Seal