"NEW YORK, _Oct. 4th, 1868_.
"Received of Allan McLane, Esq., two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
($250,000.00), the same being one-half the purchase money for the
steamer _Oregonian_, sold by W. H. Webb, Esq., to the said Allan McLane
for the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, and conveyed by bill of
sale to me, the undersigned Samuel J. Tilden, in trust for the said
Allan McLane, and to be by me transferred to the Pacific Mail Steam
Ship Co., on whose account the aforesaid purchase of the said steamer
_Oregonian_ was made by the said Allan McLane, the conveyance aforesaid
to be made by me, when requested by the said McLane and upon the
payment of the balance of the said purchase money, to wit., the further
sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
"(Signed) SAML. J. TILDEN."