THE AUSTIN PAPERS 623 El Padre moldon se mantiene aqui todavia no obstante el ardor con q. desea cosechar frutos espirituales en Austin. Desea a V. • la mejor salud su muy afecto amigo y servidor q. con toda atencion B. S. M. MANUEL DE MIER Y TERAN [Rubric]
FRANCIS w. JOHNSON 'l'O Aus·r1N
Town of Austin
21st March 1831
DR. Sm, I received and have read with pleasure yours of the 22nd. Jan 1 and 5 Feb 1 la.st, and do sincerely wish you may succeed in the Circuit Court and jury system. • Owing to the severity of the weather and the distance that the most of the members resides from this place we have not been able to convene in session but twice, nt the first nothing of importance was done and at the second but little .finished, in anticipation, how- ever of what w.ill in all probability be done at our next meeting which will take place on the 2nd. of next month, I write you as follows which is the most important so that you may have some time to think and reflect in the best course to be pursued in relation to them. The first is a memorial to the government praying for authority to rase a company of rangers and to make an appropration for the payment of said rangers which will be forwarded to the Chief of Department by this mail. Second a committee was n.ppointed to draft a plan for rusing u fund to defray the expenses of the municipality, to pay the debts due by the same: and also for the building of a jail, nnd a house sufficient for transacting the business of the Ayuntamiento and office of the Alcalda, and also to form and report a plan of the said buildings, and make an estimate of the probable cost of erecting and completing them, which will be reported and acted upon s.t the next meeting and forwarded to the Chief of Department. I deem it unnecessary to say anything on this subject, convinced as I am that you know the necessity importance and worth of said build- ings, and also of some established mode for rasing funds. .At our first meeting in consequence of the frequent outrages com- mitted by hostile Indians on the frontiers of the Municipnlity, ,:ve called on the Lieut Colonel of this Battalion to rase a company of men by draft or otherwise to serve as rangers, which he readily complied with by issuing an order to the 1st. Adjutant, who on 'his part as readily issued corresponding orders to the commanding
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