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to be subject to appeal to the Battalion court martial-decided that applicants should apply to the company court martials subject to appeal to the Battalion court mnrtial- decided that Andrew Rabb be exempted from Militia duty so long as in the opinion of the officers of his company he continues in his present ill state of health-Alexander Jackson claimed exemption from Militia duty- Cavena claimed exemption from Militia duty decided that Jackson be exempt from common company muster duty but not from campain duty when called on to go against an enemy- decided that Cavena be exempt from Militia duty so long as in the opinion of his company oflicers his leg continues to disable him- decided that comparry Musters shall be held on the last Saturday April, last saturday June and Inst Saturday in August-The Bat- talion Muster and drill of officers to be fixed by the Lieut. Col. Sam 1 .:M. Williams to be exempt from common :Musters so long as he is acting as secretary of the Colony- decided that the majority of Company officers shall compose a Company court martial- drill Muster 1 Saturday in June
JuAN FnaNcrsco Iluc1-rn·rrr TO AusnN
State of Leon, Parish of Lampazzos, April 29 th 1826
DEAR Sm, I have already sent you a few lines from Laredo giving you notice of my purposes and intentions of going to your Colony, the which, I hope, you have received. I now think advisable to inform you of my posterior Relations with the President of the venerable Ecclesiastic Chapter of this See of New Leon, Episcopali Sede vacante, the reverend Doctor, D. Jose Leon Lobo, on the subject o-f my being sent thither. • After having made known ·to him my intentions etc by letters from this place (not having been able, as yet, on account of-sickness, to go and appear before him; but I hope I shall soon do so) I have received his answer in a letter, writen in Chapter, which not only ap- prouves my purposes, praizes my motives; but also encourages me to go amongst you with the Curate, who is shortly to be sent thither, (he defines not the precise time when) in the capacity of his assistant to wit: 1° in lictis, as his lawfull interpreter for church affairs, 2° as the sacristan a Secretis, which implies steward, or clerk, of the de- pending Branch there of t_his Epi~copal church-3_ 0 as the public teacher of the roman catholic Doctnne and Dogmas m favour of the
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