Congressional Serial Set Volume 356 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...1837. All the balance might have been paid me in cash, but I do not know that it was. I only know the amount of the voucher was settled. Question by Colonel Brant. Where did yon first see the two checks dated 21st of June, 1837--one for one hundred dollars, and the other for three hundred and seventy dollars, in your favor? note.--These checks are recorded at pages 244, 245. Answer. I must have first seen them when I first received them. The next time I remember to have seen them was at Lieutenant Lee's office. Question by Colonel llrant. You slated on Saturday last, the 2'.id instant, that when you first saw the two checks dated 21st of June. 1837, at the office of Mr. Lee, you did not remember about them precisely. You a staled that you found, on reference to some memoranda, the check for 70 was/or the purpose you had slated. Did you mean thereby that the moranda, to which yon have referred, refreshed your memory respecting d check or checks; and, also, on what account you had received ihem, either of them? liiswtr. I did mean to state that, after having seen the checks in Lieuant Lee's office, I endeavored to call to my recollection the manner in ich I had received them, and the purposes for which I had received m; and I did ascertain, from my own reflections on the subject, assisted a reference to my memorandum book, that the check for $370 was reved for the purpose that 1 stated before. In reference to the check for 00,1 have nothing more to state than I have before done. Question by Colonel Brant. Could you have slated for what purpose o- checks were given to you, without consulting your memoranda'/ Answer. 1 am of opinion that my recollection was better confirmed after ud referred to my memorandum book. If I had had no memorandum, hould have sta...