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proper, Consideration of this effect, Shall be given to the agents of the republic, which are in those States, and they must let it bo known, to avoid any Claimes whatever- ! transfer it to your Excellency, for his notice, and Correspond- ing effects- :Mexico 7th April 1830. Alnman God and Liberty Most Excellent Sir Governor of the State of Coahuila y Texas
AUSTIN TO ELlAS R. WIGHTMAN
Mr E. R. WEIGHTMAN, Sm, Should you wish to commense work before my return you will call on Mr ·Williams for the plots of the Surveying done by Borden on the waters of San Jacinto, so as to connect your work with his- , I wish you to commense at the mouth of the west fork a short distance a.hove the Tuscasito road and work up the west side of the Main San Jacinto a.nd on all the creeks that discharge into it on the west side- I do not know where each of the families a.re who have entered land in that quarter and you will cnll on ,villiams for a list of them taken from the register and survey land for them all, they paying you the Surveying fees or nrrangeing them to your satisfac- tion, and also you can survey for all who have certificates of recep- tion but for no others- • • You w_ill be guided by the printed regulations issued by the Com- missioner Juan Antonio Padilla- Be cnrefull to regulate your chain and Compass agreeably to the Standard heretofore used in this Colony as directed in Said printed regulations. You will make your returns and a general connected plot of your work as soon as possible, and write the name, in pencil, of the applicant for each tract, on the tract on the Genl. plot. Take especial care not to leave any vacancies or irregular Slips between tracts, Should it be absolutely necessary to leave any vaca.nt land let it be in the middle of some prairie, where there is neither water nor timber, that is, land which is of no use at all for pasture or anything else-- San Felipe de Austin 7 April 1830 S. F. AuSTIN [Rubric] A tract was granted to David Harris on the west side of Snn Jacinto, and you will connect your work with the upper line of that tract, I believe that line has never been run and you will therefore run it. The lines of this tract as discribed in the deed of concessions are as follows- "Begining at the mouth of the
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