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AMERICAN IDSTORIOAL ASSOOIATION.
opinion as to its future advancemen~Nothing connected with you and your new country would be uninteresting, to me, who subscribes himself, JOHN D. MARTIN. Colo. S. F. AuSTIN. Ar.EXANDER HoooE TO AuBTilf District of Victoria 1 st of Nov. 1826. DR SIR. I arrived in this Colony last December and have failed to make application for Land yet expecting to have met with you in this section before now I have my family all with me and have to settle for life I wish to procure Land in the lower section of Coun- try I have four sons Two married and two single all of age who also wishes to procure Land Be so good as to write me where it is probable I shall get Land and how and when etc .Al.ExANDER HoooE N B you will please enter my name on your list as applying for Land last December A.H.
AUSTIN TO BASTROP
To the Baron de Bastrop member of the State Legislature from Texas- One of the most important subjects to the people of the State of Cuahuila and Texas is a speedy organization of the Judiciary on a system which promises permanency uniformity in the interpreta- tion of laws, and convenience to the people--A Superior Court to sit at Saltillo and at Bexar alternately, and subordinate Circuit Courts would probably be the best. . The Department of Texas might be divided into two Circuits from the Sabine to the Baca to form one, and thence to the Western limit of the Department to form another, and the balance of the State to be divided as cir- cumstances may require with a Judge in each Circuit. The Circuit Courts might have final appellant Jurisdiction in all cases sent up from Alcaldes and original jurisdiction in all Civil and Criminal Cases beyond the Jurisdiction of Alcaldes, and the Superior Court appellant jurisdiction from the Circuit Courts in all civil cases over a certain amount, and original jurisdiction in cases of gren.t im- portance. The Circuit Courts to have jurisdiction in all cases of probate and settling Estates,recording will[s] etc.regulating the rates of ferriage and gra.u.ting licenses to ferrymen, ta ve1·n keepers etc.
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