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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
·2°. Lns siembrns ·principales q. trabajen son maiz, algodon, frijol, y legumbres de toda clase; se ha hecho algunos experimentos en la siembra de la cafia de azucar, trigo, y avena; no hay duda q. la cafia dara. perfectamente bien, y que el trigo y la avena pagarn. nl • labrador por su trabajo nunq. no sea en la abundancia de alg8 otros paises. Casi todos los pobladores fabrican pafio de algodo·n en sus fo.milias. Hay un molino para despepitnr algodon complete, y otro empezado. Se ha empezado a fnbricar cuatro molinos de agua· para sacar tablones, moler granos, y despepitar algodon. 3. El numero de ganado mayor con que cuenta en el dia esta co-
Ionia son 3,500, Marranos, 4,500, Caballares, 1,000 Villa de San Felipe de Austin 28 de Mnrzo de 1826.
ESTEVAN F. AusTIN, [Rubric]
AUSTIN TO POLITICAL CHIEF l
I received, the day after my arrival from Galveston, your Lord- ships communication bearing date of the 16 th of last February, in which you say to me that the citizen Martin de Leon, Empresario of the town of Guada~upe, has presented himself at the Capital complaining that the Alcalde of the Colorado District, regardless of the consideration due him as Empresario, sole Justice of his District, maliciously and violently gave orders to one Briche to attach a cart and oxen and a load of corn, which he had sent to that settlement in charge of his son Sylvestre; and that for no other cause than a mere complaint made by Thomas Grey against his son. You instruct me further to cause the attached property to be returned to its owner at the town of Victoria, without delay, at the expense and risk of the Alcalde, if he has, indeed, commis- sioned Briche to execute the attachment, or 0£ any person who may appear to have been guilty of the offense. You, finally, order me to cause the Alcaldes of the Colonial Districts in my charge to abstain from issuing illegal judicial writs, particularly of the scan- dalous character of the one alluded to. At the issuance of said attachment, I was absent at Galveston, on the mission intrusted to me by your Lordship; upon the recep- tion of your said communication, I sent for the Alcalde and Grey, to inquire into the matter, and from the prior circumstances, and the declaration of the witnesses, the facts appear to be as follows: Grey bought an ass from Martin de Leon, paid for it, and left it with the bell mare; afterwards Grey sent for tl1e ass by a certain 1 Transintlon from Bexo.r Archives In Nncogdoc·l;es' A;·chives; Texas State Library. The untranslated original ls In the same collection, and a copy In Austin's Illotter, In file of August 26, 182-4.
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