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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Cow bayou settlement and Bevells settlement including the former settlement thence to the Trinity river below the quoshato Villedgc including the Naches settlement und all the american and Mexican families on the Trinity below the quoshato Villedge, thence from immediately below said Villedge due west to the Langes into your eastern country here, thence down the Sangesinto to its mouth thence along the eastern line of your colony to the gulf, thence along the margin of the gulf to the begining The Naches and Cow bayou settlements have hitherto been considered a part of this dist. and held amenable to our courts and voted at our elections. If it shoul be said this teritory is too large to form one jurisdiction I answer, it is thinly inhabited except on Trinity and that to appoint Ayunta- mientos in every settlement of ten or fifteen families would be ab- surd, and further, that when the population becomes more dense it will be ti.me enough to form new courts. As to the place of holding courts, At Perries point one Mile distant from the mouth of Trinity a Town has lately been laid out, by Col. Bradburn of the Mexican Army his detachment is stationed there and making rapid improvements A number of amcrican families will settle in that place so soon as they can procure lots and I am informed by Col Bradbm-n that a quantity of Mexican families have or soon will embark for the purpose of settleing there. I am there- fore induced to believe it will soon be a place of considerable com- mercial importance. Would it not, therefore be better to fix the Seat of Justice at Perries point? If the plan of organization here suggisted should meet your appro- bation together with those who will have to decide its fate, the state will never lament the act, for stern necessity requires that there shoul<l be some legal tribunal within the reach of every member of society by which every real, or imaginary wrong might have its remedy ancl every ex[ist]ing difficulty adjusted. Whether we may be so fortunate as to succeed in this application, c,r not, you Will please to ha.ve the goodness to inform us of the result as soon as practicable and if successful some provision should be mude for organizing the court as soon as posible, and ought not (in my humble opinion) to be delayed until the time of the anual election of Alcaldes. JNo A. ,vlLLIAMS [Rubric]
AsAHEL LANGWORTHY TO AUSTIN
New York Jany 5. 1831
STF..PHEN F. AUSTIN Esq. Sm, Through the kind offer of your relative Jno. P. Austin 1 Esq of New York I improve the opportunity of writing you on a
1 Jobu P. Austin's Jetter ot introduction, Jnu. 8, 1831, omitted.
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