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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
1833
To Amt Brat over___________________________ $131. 3½
Oct 28 . To 1 Glass brandy___________________________ " 1 31 Cush on a/c------~-------------------------- 30 11
Board from 1st to 31st Inst is 1 weeks and 3 days @~$9_____________________________________
39 7
Room rent from 1st to· 31st Inst is 31 days @$0G½ --------------------------------- 25 l½
$226.5
1833 Augt 28 By cash in copper $0. 4_____________________ _ Oct 2 " cash deposited_________________________ __
90. 4
90. 4
Balance due W HotcL_________________________________ $136. 1 Recd Nov 8th 1833 from Col S F Austin his order on W S Parrott for the above Balance H J OFFUTT & Co. w JNO BLACK [Rubric)
AYUNT.,BIIENTO m~ BEx:An 'l'O AusTIN 1
The honorable ayuntamiento of this town, being advised of the official letter which you directed to it, dated the 2d of the month just passed, has seen with the greatest · regret and surprise the exciting plea which you make to them that not a moment be lost in directing a communication to the rest of the department and treating with them in order that Texas may separate from Coahuila and establish a local government for itself, even though the general government refuses its consent. It is certainly very regretable that you should breathe sentiments so contrary and opposed to those of every good :Mexican, whose constitution and laws prohibit in a positive manner this class of proceedings, as you very well know, and when the ephemeral support which it is believed to have in the general law of the 7th of :May, 1824, is entirely apparent to the most moderate political capacity of the country. Thus it is that this corporation neither can nor ought, nor even wishes, to follow your suggestion, and it begs that you cease writing ·to it in regard to this matter, becu.use you know very well what these .communica- tions render one liable to, considering the laws and orders of the state which must be obeyed, and which up to the present time there is no reason to violate in so brusque a manner as you propose- especially as there is wanting any reasonable ground which could be sustained, once the enterprise were begun. 1 Copy in Bcxnr Archives nucl In Trausc1·lpts from Archives of Departml.'nt of I•'oroento, Mexico, University of Texas. The translation Is 1n the main the work ot Mrs . .Margaret Kress, ot tlle department of Spanish of the University of Texas.,
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