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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
I am :fully aware that there are many cavilling men, disposed to complain of the authorities without cause, and, even, to interfere with them. As I am not ncquainted with all the reasons that induced the Alcalde to prohibit the organization of that company, I cannot give a decisive opinion on the subject; but from what I could learn of the character and intentions of these men, I see no impropriety in allow- ing them to form a company, and I have no doubt that it would be advisable to accept their services to fill the place of the sixty men whom the Alcnlcle hns [been] ordered to furnish me with in an emer- gency. But your Lordship will be better able to judge. I have sub- mitted this subject to your Lordship at the request of the parties interested, on account of their ignorance of the Spanish language, nnd not with an intention to interfere with the business of the Dis- trict of Nncogdochcs. I have also received from the people of the Trinity a verbal tender of their services against the Indians should they be required; I an- swered them that I had no authority to accept them without your Lordship's consent. • • There is no doubt when the cold season sets in that the Indians will attack usrand I consider it important to be ready for them in time. • •God and Liberty. STEPHEN F. AUSTIN. San Felipe de Austin, August 11 th 1826.
SUGGESTION FOR A LAND TARIFF
[August 11, 1826 n El articulo 9 de la ley de Colonizacion guarantiza los contrntos hechos por los Empresarios con los pobladores por sus expensas. Me parece qe. es lo mismo si estos espensas estan erogadas por el Em- presario antes de la llegada del colono aqui 6 despues. Si nsi es i qe. razon hay qe el colono no debe pagar el Empresario los gastos necesarios de su casn mientras esta empleado en el asunto? he hecho un nrancel pues V. como mejor impuesto de la ley dira si. esta lo permitira 6 no. • • • Reconocimto al Gobn° en conformidad con el nrticulo 22 de la ley de Colonizacion por un sitio__________________________________________ tnnto t sitio___________________________________________________________. __ tnnto labor ..:. _________________________________________ ,_____________________ tan to D eJ reeyc_h_o_ _s _d_e_l_ _c_o_m_ i_s_i _o_n_a_d_o_ _e_n_ _c_o_n_f _o _r m_ _i _d_a_d_ _c _o _n _ _e l_ _n_r_t _i c_u_l_o_ _3_9_ _d_e_ _l _a _ _d _i c_h_ _a t a n t o
los Derechos del agrimensor se arreglnra en conformidud con el ~rticulo 39 de la citada ley
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