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THE AUSTIN PAPERS
We wish you to send us a statement of the disbursements in the mission in which you have been engaged, from the time of your leaving the City of New Orleans, including your prospective expenses in returning to that City, with the vouchers of the account for our examination, and we will en- deavour to provide the means for your reimbursement, before we leave the City. • We still desire to leave the amount of your compensation for services, to be determined by the Government on your return, at the same time giving both you and it, our assurances of unqualified approbation, at the manner in which you have discharged the duties of the situation in which you have been placed by us, and ~ur earnest recommendation to the Government to repay you in a liberal manner, for your exertions in behalf of the Country. We are much gratified to learn of your active efforts to raise a joint stock Steam Boat Company, and fit out a Steam Boat -from this City for Texas, on the individual enterprise of your friends. Permit us to express to you our great satisfaction for your zeal in those efforts, and our earnest desire that you may succeed in accomplishing the object, as we are fully convinced of the great advantages of such a com- munication to the Government and people of Texas, and we most ardently wish for your success in the undertaking.
SF AUSTIN WM. H. WHARTON BT ARCHER
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A. J. YATES TO AUSTIN, ET AL.
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The State of Texas, Special Mission of Messrs. Austin, ..t\rcher, and Wharton to the US. of America 1835, 1836 in A/C with A J. Yates, special agent of said Mi~ion, appointed by the commissioners at New Orleans January 21 and 22, 1836.
1836 Voucher Feb1uary 18 To travelling expr.nces from New Orleans to New York. No. l _ . .$1%.03 March April 18 " 11 " To expences of Board at New York, to this date.__ _ " 2_ 70.05
" Ditto " travelling from New York to Wash- ington City and return to New York March 18 to April ll________________ " 3,____ 31.68 Ditto of proving Steam Boat Sundres at New York with 9 collateral vouchers________ " 4____ 148.75 Bill at United States Hotel Phila. going to W City " 5__ 8.4.J
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