• THE AUSTIN PAPERS 369 stnying at the Gin nnd wishes you to write the contract and send him a copy. to wit if there is less than 100 head cows one third of the increase for his part over 100 and less than 200 one fourth 200 1md upwards one fifth, for the horses one half the increasc>-thc Hogs one half the increase-the improvement to be left in good repnir he wishes nothing said about the Gin house as there is no prospect for much business at it, he is willing to take care of it etc if you think that proposition will do send him a copy of it as Eoon as convenient if the horses could be disposed of for Cattle I think it will do, Harris is a steady man and I think it hetter to keep him there you can get the Cattle Say upwards of 200 head it _will .be an object to him and a handsome income to you. I wish you would send Willia.ms or some person to appraise the property there as soon as possible as delay will make it rnor~ diffi- cult Harris will.~hew the Stock any time JOHN AUSTIN [Ruoric]
JOHN AUSTIN TO .AUSTIN
Brasoria _April 15 1830
Co) S. F. AusTIN
Dn Sm Mr. Sarni Williams has never yet sent the papers for the Sloop althoug[li] I have written him at two different times since he left this place to send them down and if no safe oppor- tunity offered to hi1:e some person to come down that there might be no disapointmer1t the Sloop left this five days ago and has beeh laying at the mouth of the River two or three days with a fair wind but could not proceed for want of papers four days since we dis- patched a messenger to San Felipe who ought to have returned yesterday by 12 oClock he has not yet come I think Willia.ms has detained him, it is a verry serious injury to us the season is far advanced and our .Corn. is somewhat injured and it is all important that we should get it to market imediately; I do not know :Mr Williams reasons for treating us so unfriendly when he has re- ceived favours from our concern and never has yet been denied, if our buisness could have been done at another place I then would not have thought so·hard of ,villiams but he knowing that we were dependent on him for the papers he ought to have given more at- tention to it, JoHN AusTIN [Rubric]
• J. F.· PERRY TO SHIP POCAHONTAS
Brazoria, April 17, 1830,
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