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- Can this difficulty be obviated without legislative provision1 2° We cannot now give you the name in which to locate the grant for the encouragement of a cotton manufactory and may not be able to do it before the 20 May. Is there any mode by which you can get legal authority to grant a premium of 11 leagues to the proprietor of tho Cotton Factory, being resident, on his putting in actual operation at least 1000 spindles if you think proper to do so 1 This would arm you for a contract with any other party should this one back out, but I should expect you to give us the preference if the thing be done. • My first intention was, in case my solicitation were grunted to go to England with a small Brig to get my equipment and a stock of goods for the colony at first cost to make arrangements for a direct trade between the colony and England, procure English Arti- zans to erect my buildings and laborers under indentures for two or three years, and run out direct to Po'rt Austin west end of Gal- veston in October or November next. At the same time I could ascertain whether a contract could be made for supplying the King's dockyard with live oak, rail road, etc-but I cannot command funds enough to do it on my own acct, I do not chuse to engage in it for the benefit of others. The duty on foreign timber is too high in England for private contract there. From New York I learn that live oak cut promiscuously will not more than pay charges from Florida but large timber cut to moulds is valuable. Mr Echford who has the most knowledge of anybody on this subject is to send me all needful information and the best mode of making it avail- able. I mentioned in my last Mrs Holleys desire to obtain a set- tlement grant for herself and son. She is fully determined to go to the Colony if she can get land for her son. In case you think proper to comply with her wish please enclose her the form of application for her to sign and send back. Her adress is-Mn Mary Austin Holley care of Mr Hermo(J'ene La Branch New Orleans. t:> . She intends to pass the Summer here. her sons name is Horace Holley. Respectfully and cordially yours H .A.usTIN [Rubric] I have this moment ·recd a letter from our cousin Charles Austin now Mayor of Tallnhasse, Florida. He says Mr :Morgan who has just returned from Texas, has set the people T exa.s 11iad and many say they shall go there this fall. he says good lands sell there at 5 or 6$ p• Acre 25$ p' acre has been offered for Lafayettes 22.000 acres. That country in general is wretchedly poor. His son Thomas Hopkins Austin is now here, a fihe young man, I have placed him with Mr Bogert for the present. He wishd to visit Texas but is not yet experienced enough to trade in that country. Charles says
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