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by deputyship, and the following certificate illustrates the way he had 

 to do business: 



I hereby certify that I have collected of the tax Colusi County, for 

 the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one. three hundred and twenty-five 

 dollars and twenty-eight cents in coin, and one receipt of B. H. 

 Thomes — nine fifty — exclusive of my fee of five per cent for collecting, 

 and other taxes I have not collected, to this I certify on my oath, 

 according to the best of my knowledge and belief. 



Attest, WM. B. IDE, Treasurer, 



Joseph C. Huls. 

 U. P. Monroe, Auditor. 



By Wm. B. Ide, Deputy. 



Sworn and signed before me, and in my presence, this twenty-fifth 

 day of December, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, Colusi County. 



WM. B. IDE, 

 County Judge of Colusi County. 



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