STATE OF LOUISIANA, }
D.I II ~ III.
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Personally came and appeared before me,
Philip Fishburn, Justice of the Peace in and
for the state. and parish aforesaid ROBERT Ross,
of said state and parish and being duly sworn ac-
cordng to law, did say and declare as follows:
was residing at the house of Col. Warren c.
Whitaker, of this parish, in the month of April
last, when Mr.. Clark Mills arrived there on
business connected with the bust of Washington
Whitaker. This bust "a cast as | understood
from Mills, had been made by an uncle of his in
the city. Some trifing alterations in the finish of
the bust being thought necessary, Mills undertook
to make them. He had made but little progress
in the work when his evident want of skill indu-
ced Col. w. to decline having the alteration made,
for fear the bust would be spoiled. In a short
time afterwards, / heard Col. Whitaker ask Mills
the amount of his bill, to which he replied one
hundred and eight dollars and some cents. Col
w. then took from his pocket-book two notes of
one hundred dollars each, and handing them to
Mills, asked for the change. Mills replied that
he had not got the change by him: but taking one
of the notes, agreed to receive the balance next
morning in Jackson. This arrangement seeming
quite satisfactory, Mills wrote receipt, and Civ
ing it to Col. w., he left the house apparently in
the very best humor The next morning Col
Whitaker left home for Jackson, with view, as
understood him, of meeting Mills there and
paying him the balance before mentioned.


| would add, that while Mr.. Mills was at COL
Whitaker's house, which was several days, he
was treated by the whole family with every mark
OF attention, politeness and hospitality.


The following is true copy of the receipt
saw given by Mr.. Mills to Col. Whitaker, on the
occasion have spoken of:


"Red of W. G. Whitaker, one hundred dollars
in payment for the bust of w. A. Whitaker, ta-
ken in New Orleans.


(SigneD CLARK MILLS.
EAST Feliciana, 25th April, 1885,
|. ROBERT ROSS.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, Justice of the
Peace as aforesaid, this 24th day of Septem-
Der, 1896.


P. FISHBURN, J.P.


STATE OF LoUIsIANA,2


Parish of E. FeIiciana.
John Collins having sworn, does deposc and