Gov. B. Young, as witness on the Part of the U.S. in case of Libel, Testified as follows

viz.:

When on my return from the South, the first day of November 1851, I arrived at the City

of Manti, in San Pete County, I there found a company of Spanish traders. The Captain of the

company, Pedro Leon, presented me with a license, purporting to be signed by J. S. Calhoun, the

Superintendent of Indian affairs in New Mexico. I caused a copy of the said license to be taken

which I here present to the court, and which is the same I caused to be taken from the original.

(No objection urged by counsel to the same).

Pedro Leon requested a license from me to trade with the Indians. I refused to give him

one and gave him the reason that they had come to this place with the express purpose to trade

for Indian children to take to New Mexico.

I wrote the Governor of New Mexico a letter and gave it to Pedro Leon. He agreed to

return immediately to Santa Fe and deliver the letter.

The company as far as I could learn, was employed by Mr. Pedro Leon, as Clerks,

servants, traders, etc. There not being a good Spanish Interpreter present, it was difficult to find

out the real design, or extent of their mission, but this I learned, they wished to trade for Indian

children to take to New Mexico. I told them they were at liberty to trade with the whites, but

must not trade with the Indians, for the reason that they could not without violating the

intercourse Laws of the United States with the Indians. I judged there were about twenty men in

the camp of the traders.

Question by the Court: Are the Indians in San Pete, Utahs?

Ans. They are.

Ques. Do you consider the Indians Property in this Territory?

Ans. No more than the whites.

Ques. Did the Spaniards, or any portion of them return immediately?

Ans. When I refused the license to Pedro Leon, he agreed to return to New Mexico.

Question: Did they return, or any portion of them?

Ans. I do not know that any of the company did return but understood a portion of them returned

in eight or ten days, after I saw them in San Pete.

Ques. Do you know of Indian Children having been bought by white people in this Territory?

Ans. I do.

Ques. For what purpose?

Ans. All the Indians that have been bought by the citizens have been bought to obtain their

liberty and to save them from starvation, abuse, and even death.