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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
establishment up to the present time, yet great individual incon- venience is daily experienced from this mode of administration of the laws.
AUSTIN TO JAMES F. PERRY
Austin July 4. 1830
Dn BROTHER
I embrace an opportunity to say to you that all the difficult.ies which appeared to be brewing when you were here hnve passed away, and everything is going on well, and emigration to my colony will not be stoped- I have given you this information least what you see in the U. S. papers should cause you to forget what. I told you, which was to have faith in me, and to pay no attention to any thing you saw or heard that did not come from me- I know more about these matters than the news papers and every .thing has happen 4 exactly as I told you it would, when you left here. The custom house at Galveston is suspended by order of Govt. and the reason given is that the exemptions from duties in favor of the colonist of Texas has rendered it unnecessary to establish any custom houses here for the present- All goes on well, very well,- Take care tho and bring no Tobacco, except a little of choise quality to chew for the use of the colonists, and try and get in by the 1 of December S. F. A usTIN [Rubric] I have sent a copy of the above to price and }.1:organ Phia I have engaged the building of a house in this place for you to ,vinter in and a store room etc- bring all manner of peach seeds and a barrel of them-Sam Browne is well and more and more pleased with the country the more he sees- remember me to the children • A [Rubric] [Addressed:] Mrs. Emily M. Perry Potosi Missouri
MUSQUIZ TO Go VERNOR [From Bexar Archives)
Gefatura &•-Exmo Sor. No. 133-Traslado a la superioridad de V. E. respetuosammente la comunicacion oficial que me had dirijido el Empresario Ciudadano Estevan Austin con fha. 14 del p 0 p 0 • Junio q 0 a la letra es como sigue- " Sohre dar noticia del estado que guarda la tranquilidad publicn. de su Colonia, el de la siembra, y citar en con-te la maquina. de Vapor p• aserrar mnderas &a- Cuya comunicacion si V. E. lo tiene a bien sera muy conveniente darla al publico por medio de la Gazeta establecida en esa Capital, a
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