THE AUSTIN PAPERS. 1397 further Submit to your consideration and inspection a plan of the Town to [be] lnid out-- If the gra.nting for the express purpose of a Town, is not com- patible with the nature of your authorities of which we are unin- formed, We your Petitioners in such case would beg leave that a League, as above defined may be granted for the purpose of stock- ra1srng- And further if a grant to an individual would be more consistent than to the Company-We would nominate Con 1• Matison, as the grantee who is bound to make conveyances to the company. Our intentions are to reduce it to five shares, for although yours inclusiva would make seven, two we consider as merely nominal which Mr. Ludlow engages to extingush by contract, and substitute his own in lieu thereof- Considering the vast importance to your Colony and in particular the early, and immediate attention which we would bestow, and gain- ing the advnntage of the first Port where provisions and accommoda- tion can be afforded and a safe protection guaranteed to vessels, which must give it every advantage over every other in said Bay-not naming our opinion of the practicability of making an artificial pass, through tho peninsula between the Bay and main Gulph together with the maJ1y other advantages which we will in a personal inter- view explain. vVe do not hesitate to think nnd hope that your Honor will deem [it] of the highest interest to the Government in General but the most important in particular to this Section and [your] own Colony, more especially- That your honor mny so consider and grant the prayers of your Petitioners and Undersigned is our most earnest Solicitations, and as in duty bound will ever pray etc.-
H. H. LEAGUE JAMES C. LUDLOW ELIAS w IGHTl\l,\ N RICHARD lYlATSON
Sn Felipe de Austin 2d August 1826
DEPOSITION CONCERNING PETER ELLIS BEAN
This day August 3 1826 in the Town of San Felipe de Austin Per- sonally appeared before me·Stephen F. Austin Judge interim of this Jurisdiction and commissioned by order of his Excellency the Govr of the State of Quahuila and Texas to enquire as to the marriage and character of E B [ean] • .Martin Allen a respectable and honorable inhabitant of this Juris~ diction who being duly Sworn to depose the truth as to what ho
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