1500
AM:EfilCAN HlSTOR.ICAL ASSOCIATION. cantidad considerable de sellos de toda clnse que distribuira a los Pueblos, y encargandome proponer al dho Administrador por con- ducta de V. S. una persona abonada a quien puede encargar del cx- pendio de papel Sellado en esta poblacion bajo la correspondiente fianza que debe otorgar a mi satisfacion, propongo al dho Aclmi- nistrador en cumplimto con el citndo encargo de V. S. al C Samuel 1\'l ,villiams que otorgnru. la fianza necesaria luego que recibe noticia .de su nombrnmiento. Dios y Libertad • San felipe de Austin 9 de N oviembre de 1826 EsTEVAN F. AusTIN [Rubric] Sor Gefe del Departamento C Jose Antonio Saucedo.
DEPOSI'l'ION CONCERNING CouNTERFEIT l\1oNEY.
Department of Texas
Austins Colony This day personaly appeared before me Stephen F. Austin Judge ~n and for the Colony aforesaid Isaac Foster who being duly sworn lcposeth and Saith that sometime during the last Fall ,villiam ~ooper a citisen of this Colony handed deponent a piece of money as a Gold piece considered to be a half doubloon with a request that depont would hand it to John Foster that sd John Foster might with it nnd other money delivered at same time purchase for Cooper a ·steel Mill in New Orleans-deponent says he accordingly de- livered said piece of money to said John Foster with such instruc- tions and says that sd piece of money was never out of depts posses- sion from the time of so receiving it from Cooper untill he deliv- ered it to said Jn° Foster as afd- I. G. FOSTER Subscribed and Sworn to before me at San felipe de Austin this 10 Nov. 1826 STEPHEN F. AusTIN Judge [Rubric] This day personally a1;penred before me Stephen F. Austin Ju1lge in and for the Colony afd ,vm. Cooper a Citizen o:f the same who being duly sworn deposeth nnd Saith that sometime during the Inst Fall Robert H 'Williams a resident in this Colony handed clepont n piece of money are [or] gold piece and consiclere~ to ~e. vVorth Eiuht Dollars in part payment of a debt due by said " 7 1lhams to de;onent--deponent says n.t the time of receiving sd piece of money from said Robert H Williams, nor at any time since has he had in his possession any piece of ~~Id of the denomn or supposed value of sd piece so reca from Wilhn.ms says that shortly afterward he
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