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1863
5 June Gilesjworking on a report to US Internal Revenue about the
appropriate sum of $600 or lower by law allowed to each
property holder, free from taxation, shall be allowed, to
each covenant member of the community, or only to the male
members, or only to the Trustees. Judge Lewis has decided
that $600 shall be allowed to each covenant male member .
7 (Sun) About 600 of world to meeting house & from 2-400 outside.
About 300 carriages . Joseph Pelham addressed the world.

10 June Back to Lebanon.
24 July (NL) Some concern in all Societies about drafting for
military service . Now "it has been firmly agreed not to
pay any sum, small or great, as an equivalent for military
servitude, let us suffer whatsoever may be suffered as a
consequence. "
Giles working on statistics concerning pensions, bounty
lands, etc. given up to the government because of scruples.
Learn that 3 at Harvard, 3 at Shirley, 3 at Tyringham,
1 at Hancock & 1 at Lebanon Hill Family have been drafted.
27 July Fred EVans & Ben j . Gates leave for Washington. Return on
3 August. President, Station & Seward "have not deigned to
grant our request for exemption from the military requisi-
tion. They claim that exemption ... by paying $300 seems
to be all that, to their sense, is equitabVle for Shakers .
But, in condecension to our feelings , they suggest that ,
when drafted, Shakers make affidavit to the Provost Marshall
of their religious scruptfles about military servitude and,
on the presentation of the same to the Secretary of War, he
will order the Provost Marshall to levy on the Shaker pro-
perty the amount due to rans-am/those drafted. " This will
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relieve the Shakeysof the r esponsibility for the payment
of commutation.

6 Aug Ministry come to WV.

7 Aug Ghauncey Miller has broken his right arm below the elbow;
not well yet.
Simon Smith of WP has died.
14 Aug CF have been canning peas & string beans for market, but
"owing to the peculiar warm, wet and sulphurous state of
the weather, the peas all spoiled, about 600 doz. quart
cans, a great loss."

15 Aug Public meeting, but no public speaker for some time as Bro
(Sun) Joseph Pelham has been sick.
16 Aug Elder Issachar went last week to Querman's Landing on the
Hudson below Albany "to see Lewis & Sally Clark, who now
make a profession of Shaker ism. They once lived at the
West Family but both went to the world, married & went to
California, made considerable wealth and returned to NY
and now (alas, too late) talk of seeking the Lord."