THE AUSTIN PAPERS. 1463 shall be situated our new Town etc. etc. At all events we shall be grievously disappointed if the commissioner does not visit us and set us to rights-- GEORGE ORR lliNRY W. MUNSON To Col. Stephen F. Austin St. Felipe de Austin
JOHN Ju.HS TO AUSTIN
San Philip September 30 th 1826
Dmn Sm I am informed that Mr Hirams has orders for Resurveying my Land and I am of the opinion that it is not necessary-I have left in your office a correct Return of the survey and understood you to be satisfied as Mr Hunter had acknowledged his Error, and as..h~ has never made any Resurvey of any part of my Land and there is writen agreements between myself and him that will cover all the surveying that he has done about my land-The last writen agree- ment between him and me is to this effect, he agrees to Correct all his field notes on the lines miandering on the waters and Change the variation on the other side of the needle so as to make them agree with a true meridian a.nd to Return the same with the other lines as I had surveyed them, to your office, a.II which should be done before the filling of my Deed that it might not be damaged by his Errors and I agreed to pay him $37.50 in trade.-Now I hope the writen contracts between Mr Hunter and myself will be respected But as other surveyors has been allowed to survey their own and by your directions I have surveyed mine and hope it will be Re- spected I am not willing to pay Mr Hira.ms for surveying it again. I hope you will not put me to any more cost or give Mr Hunter any unjust advantage over in consequence of my having detected his Error Dier Sir I have not been able to comply with my obliga- tion to you as to time, but I would be willing to spare ·you some cattle at presint if you are ready to Receive them and the re- mainder as fast as I am able untill my land is paid for- But if I am compelld to pay Mr Hunter Contrary to my writ.en Contract or to pay Mr Hirams to survey on his account I shall not be satisfied and shall personally lay my Complaint before the heads of the department and if I cannot obtain justice I will Publicly Relinquish all pretensions to Citizenship and leave the State altho I have the best Improvement that I have seen in the Colony
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