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Chouteau Jr & Co, and to do and perform all such as is in relation to the procreation or collection of said Claim, in relation to the securing, adjusting receiving, receiptive for, compounding or compromising the service which the said Pierre Chouteau Jr. & Co. could do were they personally present and acting in relation to said Claim. Hereby ratifying and cerifirming whatsoever our said atterney may do in the premises. In testimony whereof the said Pierre Chouteau Jr. & Co. have hereto set their hands on this sixteenth day of August in the Year Eighteen hundred and forty three at St. Louis Missouri

                                                                                                                                     P Chouteau Jr. & Co.