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THE AUSTIN PAPERS
your convenience to be in this City, and if the Honor of your attendance at such Meeting may be expected also that of the Gentlemen who accom- pany you from Texas. w. P. SMITH BRITTON EVANS S. McGARZEY H. D. TARR STEWART NEWELL Committee.
PROCEEDINGS OF A Pao-TEXAS MEETING
[Lexington, Ky., April 2, 1836. Committe of Seven submitted resolu- tions of sympathy for Texans. Colonel [ Ira R.?] Lewis addressed meet- ing for more than two hours, giving history of development of the revolu- tion. . The meeting then adopted an address to the United States Govern•, ment, urging the recognition of Texan independence. "Subscriptions to a considerable amount were collected at the time, and committees appointed to receive the donations for the Emigrants who moved to the relief of the sufferers in Texas."]
PROPOSALS FOR A LOAN
Propositions made by sundry Individuals of New York to the Commis- sioners appointed by the Provisional Government of Texas to contract a Loan in the United States.- The parties subscribing propose to Loan tq the Provisional Government aforesaid, five Hundred thousand Dollars, more or less, on the following conditions. 1 • t. The Bonds of said provisional government and a certified copy of the authority under which the said Commissioners act, shall be deposited in the hands of such Trustees, as may be agreed upon, as a security for the payment of the amount to be Loaned, agreeably to the Subsequent Stipu- lations.- 2d. The Loan to be made for five Years from date upon an Interest of Six per cent per annum payable semi annually in the city of New York.- 3d. Certificates of Stock, to be issued to subscribers to the Loan, in Shares of Eighty, one Hundred and Sixty; and three Hundred and Tw~nty Dollars.- 4th. The commissioners to pledge themselves to exert their influence with the said provisional Government to obtain for the individuals loaning the money, the option to take Lands of the Public Domain of Texas in payment of said Loan at fifty Cents pr acre at their option, at any time,
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