Chautauqua Land Office
October 1837.
Notice
The following modifications have been made in consequence of
the decayed condition of the currency of the county.
I. Hereafter no bank bills will be received in payment at
this office ^except safety, fund bills and not other notes as are not^ which are at a greater discount in the city
of New York than one and an half percent below the pay
of safety fund bills.
IId. In order to allow a necessary facility to persons indebted at the
office, uncurrent bank notes will be received from them, as a
special deposite it ^which paper^ will be forwarded as soon as conveniently
may be to Buffalo and will there be sold, and the net avails
^in safety fund bank notes^ after all expenses and charges will be placed to their credit
in the books of this office. Neither this office nor any person con-
nected with it will receive in any shape any commission profit
or discount upon such paper, nor will it be received ^on the above terms^ [ from ] [ from any ]
person except thosenot indebted to the office or for any [hole]
than to realize a payment actually due. Hi [hole]
against all abuses the account of sales will be exhibited to [hole]
interested.
III Bonds and mortgages hereafter to be taken will, if preferred by [hole]
mortgager, be made payable into equal annual instalments
commencing on the first day of January 1839 with semiannual
payments of interest on the first day of January and the first
day of July in each year.
IV The like extension will if desired be made on all unex-
pired bonds and mortgages remaining in the office provided
the interest is fully paid on or before the first of January
next.
V. Contracts expiring on the first of January next will be renewed
by deed bond and mortgage ^for ten years as above or will be^ or extended until the first
day of January 1839 or the payment of 50 cents per acre
instead of one dollar as before contemplated.
VI. In order to afford these liberal terms in the present deranged
condition of the currency the subscriber must insist upon punc-
tual payment of the interest ^due^ on all debts due at this office.
W.H. Seward

Benjamin J. Seward Esq.
Land Office
Westfield
Chautauqua Co.
Single.
AUBURN OCT 6
October 6, 1837

Receipt in deposite.
Chautauqua Land Office
183
____________ has deposited in this office
dollars in bank notes of the ___________
____________ to be converted into safety fund notes ^by sale^ with
out profit to this office, and the net avails after ^deducting^ all expenses
and discount to be credited on his account in this office or
the surrender of this receipt.
$
Stipulation on Contract.
to
Wilhem Willink and others
to
Contract dated
For P. L. T. R. Acres
This contract is extended to the first day of January 1839
Dated 183
Stipulation on Bond & Mortgage.
to
Wilhem Willink & others
Bond & Mortgage States 183
Recinded. 183 Lib. Fol.
By, P. B. T. R. Acres
This Bond and Mortgage is so extended that the principal
^remaining unpaid^ shall be payable in ten equal annual instalments
the first to be paid on the first day of January 1839
and the interest payable semiannually on the first of
January and first of July in each year but this stipula-
tion shall be absolutely void ^at the election of the mortgage^ whenever default shall be
made in any ^such^ payment of principal or interest and in that
case the original laws condition of the Bond & mortgage shall be re embur-
bursed in full for may be enforced according to the condition therein
contained.
Dated 183
Amount of Principal due at this date
Do. Interest Do.

Thursday night.
My dear Jennings,
On the preceding pages you have first a notice
as to the bill which may received in payment. You may
receieve U.S. Notes and send them directly to Batavia.
Under the 2^d clause I trust you will have little business
to do, I hope there will be none, but it is necessary to use
more excuses by these might pretend a willingness
to pay. Should you get any amount of uncertainty
under this clause you may go to Buffalo, find as honest
a broker as you can and sell what you have and arrange
for future sales. If Mr Tucker wishes he can arrange with
the broker for Lumbermans money. We must stop altogether
taking it, and all others ^incurrent^ or on our account.
Write to the Bank at Erie wheth to ask whether they will redeem
equal to 1 ^1/2 issue N. York, if so arrange with them.
On reflection, I think it will be only necessary to get 300-
400 or less of the notices printed at Mayville. Let Henry Smith
copy it and have a fair copy to show while the Sentinel
is getting it out, and begin immediately.
Get by previous bargain as to the price 200 or 300 of the
stipulations of both Kinds printed & be ready to practice on
that principle when required. They are to be annexed to the contract
or the bond – and a memorandum of the same made on the
statement which the obligor Keeps.
I saw Walter Smith at New York- he says his note
shall be paid - he goes up this week- write to him next week
for the money.
Yours affectionately
W.H. Seward.