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? On hit passage towards the place he met with with the Command- ant General of the Californias at Soledad- to whom he delivered hi* passport and papers- The General then altered his passport and jpurnished him a letter to Dan Louis at San Francisco to which place he accordingly proceeded gave his letter and passport- was told he was at liberty but after several attempts was denied any pass port at all Finding it impossible to procure subsistence or necessary money to reach home he left the place without a passport at the peril of his life and though frequently threatened on his passage succeeded in reaching Santa Barbara wishing to reach San Gabriel where he hoped to get sufficient to live upon till an opportunity might offer of returning to his countyy At Santa Barbara met with the General and after informing him of his not being able to procure a passport at San Francisco was provided with one to San Gabriel to which place he proceeded and after remaining there some time and much disappointed in hie hopes of a livelihood he returned to this place where he was informed that a good subsistence might be obtained / From which place your petitioner being an American Citizen requests your attention to his case, if that any releif it may be in your power to procure him may afford him some reparation for the barbarous treatment ha has received when unavoidably thrown hare by distress and loss and in duty bound will ever pray affirming before the undersigned that what is written above is shrictly and faitfully true-.- .w "yd- (Signed) Isaac Oilbreth
