d infant two weeks old and said Lawrence, Martha and Mary
before the Judge here as aforesaid shall be paid by the Said
Robert Smith.

Given under my hand as Judge of the first Judicial District of
the State of California on this 19th day of January, A. D. 1856,
at the City of Los Angeles.

BENJAMIN HAYES,
_District Judge_.

On this 19th day of January appears the said Robert Smith by his
attorney, Alonzo Thomas, Esq., and moves the Judge hereto the
costs in this case which is taken under advisement until Monday
next at 10 o'clock, A.M.

BENJAMIN HAYES,
_District Judge_.

On this Monday, January 21st, 1856 the said Smith and the said
parties so ordered to appear as aforesaid do not appear and this
cause is continued until tomorrow at 10 o'clock, A.M.

BENJAMIN HAYES,
_District Judge_.

FOOTNOTES:

[41] These Documents were collected by Miss D. L. Beasley and M. N.
Work.

[42] _Miscellany_, p. 35.

[43] _Miscellany_, p. 545.

[44] This paper is from the collection of 105 in the Court House at
Eureka. Austin Wiley, whose name appears in the document, was later
appointed Superintendent of Indian Affairs for California; and during
his term of office did much to bring to a satisfactory termination the
trouble then existing between the settlers and the natives.

[45] _Miscellany_, p. 541.

[46] These are freedom papers as recorded in the California County
Court records, and as they have been found by the California
Archivist, Mr. Owen Coy.

[47] This court record was obtained by Mr. W. N. Work.

THOMAS JEFFERSON'S THOUGHTS ON THE NEGRO

I

Jefferson, like a number of liberal-minded men of his time, execrated
the slave trade and as the following extracts will show held it as a
grievance against the British.

During the regal government we had, at one time, obtained a law
which imposed such a duty on the importation of slaves as
amounted nearly in a prohibition, when one inconsiderate
assembly, placed under a peculiarity of circumstance, repealed
the law. This repeal met a joyful sanction from the then reigning
sovereign, and no devices, no expedients which could ever be
attempted by subsequent