1702
AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
and the people finding it impossible to remove their property and to evacuate by the time stipulated, and to leave their corn standing in the Fields that starvation must be the result. the people were called together, nnd a peti[ti]on drawn up and signed-by the same and myself, begging for longer indulgence to remove their effects and I myself drew up one inclividually and beged farther indulgence to remove my property, and Mr Kerr dispatched immediately to San Antone with the papers, and was detained there mueh longer than necessary and returned only a few days before the time expired: and did succeed in geting the time lenghtened untill the first day of December, nt which time we are Ordered to evacuate the place, and unless that I can procure_ waggons I find that it will be impossible for me to remove my· property by that time, Consequently it must •be at their mercy and will to consume it as they please, as we are threatened in case we do not evacuate the place that we shall be moved by force-it nppea.rs that there is nothing but oppression in this part of the Cuntry and every thing appears to be done to im- pede me in the progress of _my business ahd in order to dispute the people so that I may not obtain any proof of my ·treatment last year, and to drive the Americans from the cuntry, after their in\'itation to them to colonise the same, this Order of his Excellency Ordering the Inhabitants to evacuate the place immediately I think a most unjustifiable thing and breaths nothing but oppression. the people have made considerable improYements at the place, and I myself have a warehouse built for the reception of property coming to the Cuntry, and now without even having assertained that they are on the reserved Lands as there has never been nny line run to assertain • that fact, they are Ordered to evacuate the same-It will be a ,,ery hard case indeed. that the colonists should loose their improvments, as they were entered into with the Empresario of the Government, if the Empresario has erred it is not just that individuals should suffer, as the Law guarantees the contracts made by their Empre:.. sarios, consequently they should be payed for their improvments- By the Colonisation Laws if I have any understanding at all this station is not within six Leages of the reserved Lands--in the un- settled state of affairs at th1s time I have determined that I will re- move to San Antone for the present and so soon as I may effect my removal I shall proceed immediately to Saltillo to mnke some de: mand for my property taken from me last year unjustifyably-I emio-ratecl to the cuntry being invited by the Laws of the Land to sett~ myself for life in a climate more congenial to my constitution than that of my native cuntry, and brought with me my pr~perty and including freight, Insurance, Waggonage and other contmgent W ill amount to between $7000 & 8000 at cost, the whole expences, f ] · l Jias been taken from me by the officers of the Government, o W UC 1 •
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