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Andersen vs Tracy } Depon.
Testimony of Wm Andersen

One day that I happened to be at Mr Tracy's mill and I said to him I understand you have rented your mill out. He said Yes I have partly rented it out I asked him to whom he said to Col Patterson and I made the remark to him that I would have liked to have had it myself Then he told me to hold on for a few days and if Patterson did not take it, maybe he and I could come on some terms. I then went home and in a week or so was down there again and he said that Col Patterson had not been there again accordg to promise and that he would rent me the mill and then I asked him upon what terms and he said that he would let me have it on the same terms [[strikethrough]]that[[/strikethrough]] as he had offered it to Col Patterson and that was 200 doll per year. I told him I thought that was rather an extravagant price for a Grits Mill that I wanted it put in order to manufacture merchantable flour that I would give him 200 dolls a year and put it in order paying the workmen if he would furnish all the material to put the mill in order sufficient to manufacture merchantable flour and he was to put the storehouse in sufficient order for the storage of goods. He agrees to do it, then went up to the house. He wrote the bonds off — for three years each bond per $200 — After he had written the bonds off his mother was in the other room, he called him mother in and read the bonds over to her and I said I did not know whether I ought to be made to keep the gearing in order and Mrs Tracy said that she (or her husband) had rented the mill for a term of years and they had had that to do. She did not object to the bonds at that time, if she did she did not say anything to me at that time. I then 

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