THE AUSTIN PAPERS 567 recomendable y de respectabilidad a quien suplico •6.V. le ministre los conocimientos q. pueda nesesitar y lo vea como a mi propia Persona. Soy con toda concideracion su mas afectisimo amigo y atento servi- dor q. b. s. m. J osE DELAS PIEDRAS [Rubric] [Addressed:] Al Sor. Dn. Estevan Austin. Villa de Austin
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N 35 GEFATURA DEL DEPARTAl\IENTO DE BEJAR
De los fondos de la depositaria del cargo de V. entregara al Sor. Diputado por este Departamt° Ciud 00 Esteban Austin la cantidad de trescientos treinta y siete pesos cuntro reales que le corresponden de viatico pr razon de Marcha en doscientas setentn leguas de dis- tancia desde la Vill.a de Austin hta. la capital del Estndo adonde debe pasar pa desempefiar su destino exigiendole de ella el corre-
spondto recivo pa documentar su inbersion Dios y Libertad Bejar 28. de Dic 0 de 1830.
RAMON MusQUIZ [Rubric] Al Depositario de los fondos del Estado en esta Ciudad Ciudadano Jose Antonio de la Garza
AUSTIN TO SAMUEL lf. WII..LIAMS
[From WUUams Papers, Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Tex.]
Bexar 28 December 1830
Dn S..ur. I arrived here last morning, and shall leave the day after to- morrow by the upper road. I get an escort from here as far as Rio Grande, and another from there to Saltillo- Madero will leave in a few days for that place. I wish you to pay him all the attention you can. Shew him some of the deeds that are finished and explain the mode of translating the Surveyors return etc-also the general plots. he is (I have no doubt) as true and warm a friend as the North Americans have-. he is a devoted friend of Guerrero and opposed to Teran and the present administration- on subjects of this kind it is best to be silent unless directly ques- tioned, in the latter case you will of course give prudent answers.
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