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roban pr. estos pueblos y como nn Samuel ya no deve estar hay, es nesesario qe. V. se tome la molestia de dirigir ha aquel funcionario, y espero me dara francam to su opinion en este asunto. Vale
AUSTIN TO C011IMODORE DAVID PORTER
St Felepe Your esteemed favr of the 10 April came by the last mail and I rece'd it yesterday at this place together with the copy of your memorial to the President on the subject of a grant for seteling a colony in Texas, and meeting with Cap Pettet here in the Schooner Santana I improve the oppertunity to reply. I will enclose the memorial to the Govr of the State by the next mail accompanied with a letter strongly recommending your appli- cation, and and I think there will be no difficulty provided the memo- rial to the President is granted so far as he has the power to grant it, I also recommend that you procure a letter from L. Z. [Lorenzo de Zavala] to the Govr and Lieut Govr of this State, I have under- stood, indirectly, that Z. once had an idea of applying himself for the same section of country, wheither the information was correct or not I am unable to say, I believe that his standing with the authorities of this State is very good- a private or unofficial letter from Guerrero if such a thing could be procured would effectually secure the matte~- The Senater Agustin viesca is a brother of the Govr Also the Deputy from this State vicente Campos stands very well with the Govr. it perhaps might be well to cultivate their acquaintance etc. It will be necessary for you to examine the colonization law of this State passed 25. March 1825 in order to comprehend the nature of the system which this Govt have adopted in regard to the coloniza- tion of the vacant lands in the State, and as you can easily procure that in Mexico by applying to Z. I do not·now explain it at length- the law was published in the Aguila about tvm years ago- Agree- ably to the law and the system which the Govt have pursued your memorial ought to have stated the number of families you offered to introduce and settle within the limits applied for the law allows to the Empresario five Leagues and three labors for each 100 families not exceeding 800. Should it be practicable for you [to] visit this country and exam- ine it particularly yourself before commencing the settlement of the colony I think it would be advantageous Capital can be profitably employed here, and perhaps a company might be formed which could command capital, and tend greatly to the advancemt of the country as well as being profitable to those concerned-
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