written sideways, with numerical figures   At the time the Board Settled with me finally In 1860 at which time they gave me the Deed to Block 224  amp; 241 they owed me  Competing  interest at ten percent per annum   adding the interest at the  End of Each year something over  8.00   the Blocks at that Time I had receved from the proprietors were not worth in my  inelgment  more than one thousand Dollars   or twelve hundred Dollars