THE AUSTIN PAPERS 539 cuantos en el se hallnsen en igual caso pr. ser en todo ~onforme a la. mente dela superioridacl y ordenes con qe. me hallo. . Doi n.V. las mas exprecivas gracias pr. los auxilios qe. me promete p• la persecucion de gente vaga pr. esta parte del pais, como asi- mismo pr. la buena clisposicion del iltr 0 Ayuntamto y habitantes de esa Colonia pa. el mismo fin seg 0 me indica en su citado of<> qe. e.tentamente contesto, suplicandole ala vez se sirva dar ami nombre las devidas gracias a. tan apreciable corporacion y vecindario, reci- viendo V. las protestas mas sinceras de mi respetuosa concideracion y aprecio. Dios y Libertad Tenoxtitlnn 22. de Nov• de 1830. Sor. Tento Coron! Ciudad 0 Estaban Austin FRANC 0 Rmz [Rubric]
FRANCISCO MEDINA TO GOVERNOR VIESCA
Nacogdoches, November 23, 1830.
See Calendar.
JOHN RANEY TO AUSTIN
Bolivar, November 23, 1830.
See Calendar.
AYON'l'AJUIBNTO OF SAN FELIPE TO Aus'rrN
Municipality of Austin Information havjng been given to the Ayunt 0 of this Municipality that the inhabitants of the Colony of the Empresario Green De ,vitt, belonging to this jurisdiction a.re suffering from the robberies of barbarous Indians, who are supposed to be assisted and directed by men of infamous character, prowling in the vicinity of that Colony and who are stealing horses etc to carry to some other place for sale. This Ayuntamt 0 in the discharge of the duties and obli- gations confered on it by the Laws have thot proper for the preser- vation of the property of the inhabitants and for the preservation of good order and tranquility to appoint Mr Francis 1V. Johnson as a Commissioner to proceed, with a number of militia men to the western frontier of this Colony, and to the Colony of the sd Dewitt for the purpose of investigating the true situation of those inhabi- tants and also to endeavor to apprehend and secure those disturbers of the tranquility and violaters of the Laws in order that they ma.y be brot to exemplary punishment. for which reason the .Ayunt 0
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