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State of California
Colusa County, M A Lacock being duly
sworn deponent and says
that in the month of August last she sold
to Geo M Hanson Superintendant of Indian
Affairs for the Northern District of California
for the United States one horse for the sum
of two hundred & fifty dollars, that at the date
of said sale she expected to said Hanson
duplicate vouchers to the United States for said
sum of two hundred & fifty dollars and received
from him a draft of which the following is a
copy Viz. Lacocks Horse Aug 1863
No. 50 Assistant Treasurer of the U. S.
San Francisco
Pay to Margarett A Lacock or bearer
Two Hundred & Fifty dollars
$250.00 " Geo M Hanson
Supt. Agt &c

That the date though in a [illegible] was
not put in to said draft and the [illegible]
date of the vouchers is now forgotten by this
deponent, that the draft was not honored
by the Assistant Treasurer and she has never
received any compensation for her horse that
she now holds the draft made to be delivered up