Robert L. Fishburn, of Brigham City, in said county and Territory, being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he has occupied the position of chief clerk in the mercantile department of Brigham City Mercantile and Manufacturing Association, during several years last past, and that he has never received, nor known any other clerk, secretary, superintendent, officer or agent of said Brigham City Mercantile and Manufacturing Association to have received, by way of exchange, or by way of payment for cash, or any legal tender, the scrip used by said association. Robert L. Fishburn. Sworn and subscribed to before me, this 28th day of January, 1879. John D. Burt, Probate Judge, Box Elder County. Territory of Utah, Box Elder County, _ss_. James Pett, superintendent woolen factory; Charles Kelley, superintendent boot and shoe department; I. C. Nielson, superintendent cabinet department; O. W. Stohl, superintendent tailors' clothing department; all of Brigham City Mercantile and Manufacturing Association, of Brigham City, county and Territory aforesaid, being duly sworn according to law, depose and say that we are, and have been for a number of years last past, the salesmen of the articles made in our respective departments, and that we have exchanged the greater part of said articles for the scrip used by said association, which scrip we have never recognized as possessing a cash value, and have never known an instance in which said scrip has been received for cash or redeemed in cash. James Pett, Charles Kelley, I. C. Nielson, O. W. Stohl. Sworn and subscribed to before me, this 28th day of January, 1879. John D. Burt, Probate Judge, Box Elder County, Utah. All efforts proved futile; "the powers that be" are opposed to union and progress, and justice was not to be obtained by legal process. Those people were forced to borrow ten thousand two hundred dollars to meet an illegal, oppressive tax (which they paid under protest) which, in reality, was nothing but a swindle, concocted and enforced by heartless, unprincipled demagogues. The note following is the honest expression of a broad and generous heart, and worthy of preservation as a memorial of brotherly love: Salt Lake City, OCTOBER 21ST, 1879. _Elder Lorenzo Snow_: My Dear Brother.--I have always felt, since the burning of your factory, very sorry for your misfortune, and have often thought that it would only take a few dollars from each of the many friends of home industries to make you whole. The accompanying ten dollars does not begin to express the extent of my sorrow, but I trust you will accept it as a free-will offering from the not over abundant cash resources of Your brother in the Gospel, Joseph F. Smith. Response: Brigham City, October 23d, 1879. _Dear Brother Joseph_: