1682
AMERICAN .HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION•.
from your Experiance in the Buisness of collonizeing and know- ing as you do the Policy o-f the Government it is much safer for me ta depend entirely on your Judgement to point out the Necessary Requisites for the advancement of the colony which I hope you will attend to than to prescribe my self should the Change be made ac- cording to tbe Prayre of the memorial you will pleas to inform me by letter Immediately that I may communicate with the company
and be preparing for the Settlement- San Felipe De Austin the 10 Sept 1827
H. H. LEAGUE
M. M. BA'ITLE TO AUSTIN This Agreement made and entered into in the Town o-f San :felipe de Austin between Mills l\{ Battle on the one part and Stephen F Austin on the other part witnesscth. That the party of the first part bargains and agrees and by these presents binds himself to perform the following work to wit: take down and put up again the house belonging to said party of the 2d part and raise it to the heighth of 12 feet. both pens, frame and raise a :front Gallery 10 feet wide, back gallery 12 feet wide with a room in ·each end o:f 15 feet, with a door and two windows in each both Galeries to extend the full length o:f the house, the Rooms on the Galleries to be framed and the weather boarding to be dressed-Bannister and hand rail all the Galleries. Make an addi- • tional door in each of the old pens to pass in the back rooms, two windows in each of the old pens in :front with all the Correspon.ding sash and shutters for them-Lay a tongued and groove floor all through the lower floors and squarn jointed floor above o,•er the two pens and Entry-Lay a tongued and groove floor over the two rooms in the back gallery, frame the roof and shingle the sn.me. "\Veather board the Gable ends with dressed stuff and furnish the house with all the doors nnd shutters that is specified above and windows making use of the sash that is ready made and fnrnishing the balance. The house to be raised on blocks of wood 3 feet from the ground the whole to be performed in a neat and workmanlike manner and every possible exertion to be used to complete the work with the utmost dispatch-The party of the second part to place the Scantling plank, joice and all the timber for the house on the spot where the building is to be placed-The party of the first pa.rt to furnish in the woods the Logs and sills for the Galleries ready cut. the party of the second part to f-urnish all the other plank timber etc. And the party of the second part hereby binds and obligates himself to pay_ in considera- t· of the said work the sum of two hundred dollars rn money and J~~r hundred Dollar& in property at Cash price-such as Cows and
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