THE AUSTIN PAPERS. 1063 above to l\fr. Beauford Brooks for Brooks League adjoining the town Tract as you will perceive So you will arrange the League of Land which was surveyed in the name of King for Mr. Beauford Brooks they ~ish their deed as soon as you can get them .made out and send them up :Mr. Hope wishes to get the vacant Land that Lyes below Mr. Williams-adjoining Fisher I suppose thera may be a quarter Leage of it If you think proper to let him havn it you hav probably an account of its situation in the office so that you can deed it to him without any further survey If you can- not let me know and I will have It Run out- he also under- stood that there is some vacancy on Mill Creek above the Mill Tract he is desirous to get a Leage there If he can he says that he has a Large family and :feels desirous to procure as much Land for them as posible as to the last Request you will cloo as you think proper I wish you to make out the Town Tract in Brooks deed or l\fr. Hopes which Ever is moust convenient you will find in- closed the survey of the two Labours ,TNo P. CoLEs [Rubric] AUSTIN TO HORATIO CHRIESl\IAN. 1 Having received information at seven o'clock in the afternoon of this day that the within mentioned Andrew Valentine together with his companions Mariano Mora one Chocolatero and others of his associates are stopped on the Trinity River at the Crossing of the La Bahia Road at the House of one Sartuche. Therefore in compliance with the above order of the Acting Governor of the Department of Texas and in the name of the :Mexican Republic I command you to collect a sufficient Number of the National :Militia of this Colony to follow and make prisoners the said Valentine and his companions wherever they may be found and to take possession of everything they have with them bringing them and the property taken forthwith to this Town under strict guard that I may send them on to the Superior Authority as Prisoners In compliance with the.:foregoing order. Useing arms should they make resistance. Thus I Stephen F. Austin Lieut Co 1• of the Militia of this ·colony and Judge Commissioner tfierefor Command and order to be executed. Given in.the Town of San Felipe de Austin pt Ap 1 1825 STEPHEN F. AusTIN [Rubric] SAMUEL M. vVILI.,I.AMs [Rubric] Secretary of the Colony To Citizen Horatio Chrisman Captain of Militia-- • Ft·om Bexar Archives; University of Texas. There Is also a Spanish trnnslatlon In this collectlon. For the charge against Valentine see Beramendl to Austin, Februar7 Ui, l 821>. Chrlesman'a report, April 20, 1821>,
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