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Page 1 Saint Helens, Oregon June 4th AD 1860 Squire Bennett. The following is a copy of the charges presented against you in the relation you sustain to the Methodist Episcopal Church. First Charge. False swearing. First Specification. In swearing falsely, in a case brought against Dean Blanchard and others, in the County Court of Columbia co State of Oregon, in Feb or March AD 1860 to recover the value of two Cows sold from you to pay delinquent taxes of the year 1857 in which you say you have suffered great and irreparable damages and pecuniary losses to wit. in the sum of One Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars" during one summer. Second Specification. In falsely endeavoring to prove through your Attorney that two yearling calves constituted part of the said damages. Third Specification. In swearing falsely on or about the 25th day of May, AD 1858, befor J W Watts a Justice of the Peace in Columbia co Oregon. to have been Damaged in the sum of One Hundred Dollars in being? required to deliver up a copy of the statute of Oregon in your Possession and belonging to Columbia co Oregon.