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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
boast of a most happy change of things since the arrival of Dn J. A. Padilla. I think your hopes wil! be realized by the course adopted by the Commissioner and we will be able to glide calmly along with. out any remains of former curses. The military appear to have their duty much better than formerly. If they are doing anytltjng in the old dishonesty it is in a private way and their impertinences have abated. in much haste THOMAS F. McKINNEY [Rubric] Col. Stephen F. Austin
RAMON MUSQUIZ TO GOVERNOR
Bexar, February 14, 1830.
See Calendar.
A. P. MEAD TO AUSTIN
Essex town Essex County State of
New York. Feb. 15th 1830
To Colo S. F. AusTIN Sm
A writer in the Ohio Monitor, under date of Oct 14 1829, after giving a short history and discription of your settlement at San Felippe de Austin in Texas, proceeds to say that "Lands c~rn be obtained by emigrants with great facility from the Emprc~sario ond the Commissioner of government under the Colonization Law which authorizes the grant to families of actual settlers of one league Mexican Measure, equal in English to 4446 acres superficial surface and unmarried men can obtain the iJth part of that quantity. The expenses of which will not amount to four cents per acre." The object of this communication is to inquire whether the state- ments in that article can be relied on. There are from eight to !welve families in tliis place respectable for intelligence sobriety and mdustry, who if they could be assured of realizing the prospects held out to them by the writer of the article alluded to, would. like to set out for that place as soon as they could make proper arrange- ments; but we feel it to be too serious an undertaking to enf!age in without a better guarantee than an anonymous writer in a news. paper. ·we should be particularly gratified to receive from you a. ~peedy answer to the enquiry whether such a company could be located together in a favorable spot, and on what conditions with as many particulars relative to the soi!, climate, civil and religious regula- tions etc as you can afford tim.~ to devote to such an object. If
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