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THE AUSTIN PAPERS.
AusTrN TO [GovEnNon 01:-· CoAHUILA AND TExAS.] 1 The Lands situated within the Ten Leagues bordering on the Coast of the Gulf of Mexico, between the Rivers Brazos and Colo- rado, are in part colonized by me, under the grant already mac;le to me by the Supreme Government of Mexico, but as some of these lands within the said Ten Leagues of the Coast border, are yet vacant, and as the annexation of the said Ten Coast border Leagues to the Dis- trict which the Government of Coahuila and Texas has assigned me for the settlement of the Five Hundred families I have engaged to introduce, is highly important to the prosperity of t.he new Colony, I therefore pray the Government to grant me permission to colonize the Ten Leagues of the Coast border within the following limits, viz., Beginning at n point on the Eastern bank of the RiYer La Baca where it is intersected by the boundary line of the said Ten Border Leagues; thence East 1T with the Northern boundary line of the Ilorcler leagues to the river San Jacinto, and thence w·est with the Coast to the mouth of the aforesaid river La Vaca, and thence up said river to place of beginning, comprising ::i.11 the vacant lands of the Ten Coast border leagues between the aforesaid rivers La Baca and San Jacinto, and that the said Border Leagues be-annexed to the aforesaid Colony, ·and settled on the same terms stipulated with the Government of the State of Coahuila and Texas for the said Colony of five hundred families. San Felipe de Austin, 5 th June 1826 ; STEPHEN F. AUSTIN. Comandante Pral de Armas sobre la vueltn de alga milicinnos Algunos de los milicianos de la expedicion ;i los pueblos de los Yndios huecos volvieron hoy enfermos me dicen q. los Ynclios hubian abandonado sus pueblos enteramente, •no hubin. una alma n,lli y q habian fugado con sus fnmilias y efectos al pueblo de los Tahuiases sobre el Rio Roxo de Natchitoches clejnron mucho mais etc en sus la.bores-El parte q. me inando el Comanclailte de In partida estn detenido -por una cas1.rnlidacl y no llegnra hta mafinna y por con- siguiente no puedo decir por este correo otras patiiculares sobre ln materia q lo dicho arriba·- • Dy L- SF de A-6 de Junio de 1826-· EE A- [On_rriargin ·of original in Bexar Archives:] AUSTIN TO MATEO AI-IUMADA [From .A.nst.in's Blotter, in file o-f Aug-ust 26, 1824.] Quedo enterado clel oficio de V. de 6 del corriente, relntivo al acaecimt 0 q. ,tuvo la Partida de. Tropa. destinncln a los Pueblos de , , , ., , . ' ·' . 1 Ge11eral Land Office, 1'ranslations of Record11, 1826-1835, p. 151,
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