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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
dicho no tendra efecto en el Dept 0 segun lo decea su amigo afmo Q. B. S. M. RAMON MusQmz [Rubric] [Evidently the quotation from Balmaceda's letter:] Y aun nosotros nos hemos opuesto abiertamte a publicar el Decreto de 16 de Septiem• sobre creacion de un fondo Militar y restrincion dela libertad de imprenta, y aun nos hemos estendido a obserbar el de la libert-ad de esclavos qe. tantos danos origina al Estado.
SANTIAGO DEL VALLE TO AUSTIN
Saltillo, October 31, 1829.
See Calendar.
FAILURE OF THE SPANISH INVASION
[This document, probably intended by Austin for an editorial in The Texas Gazette, is omitted. It is undated, but was probably written about November 1, 1829.] See Calendar.
AUSTIN TO ELIAS R. WIGHTMAN
Mr. E R WEIGHTMAN DR Sm,
In regard to the salt lots. I think that if you could lease to Burnham, and ·give him the previlege for a certain number of years- say three or four or five, on condition that he kept the works agoing, and at the end of the lease the lots to be given up with such im- provements and kettles etc as may theO: be on the place, without binding him to any specific kind or value of improvements-The main object is to sta.rt the thing now for the benifit of the place, the lots hereafter will be valuable, and it is better to give the use of the lots for nothing for a certain number of years than to sell- also it is better to give the previlege to Burnham to keep all his kettles when his time is out- This is my. opinion-tho you must do as you think best or proper and either sell or lease as may be thought by you be.st-- I am. ready at -any time to give you a full power of attorney as agent of the proprietors, I proposed to League on my return last s~er to go immediately down and he promised to do so, but h~s been m bad health- As soon as it is possible for me to do so I ~vill go down there and make a final arrangement and in the meantune I will agree to any dispositions of lots to actual settlers who i.ID-
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