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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
,James Nelson to Austin, November 6, 1824. Elijah Allcorn to Harrison and Hopkins, Natchitoches, November 0, 1824. Commerce. Austin to Gaspar Flores, November 6, 1824. Incorporated 23 families set- tled on the San Jacinto into his colony. Austin to Supreme Executive Power of the Republic, November 6, 1824. Labor in establishing the colony. Needs legal port to facilitate necessary trade. Four cotton gins ready to gin cotton which can not ship without a port. Wants to introduce 200 or 300 additional families. Austin to State congress, November 6, 1824. Asks State congress to inter- vene with National Govemment to permit to settle additional colonists and to open a port on t-he coast, preferably at Galveston. John P. Coles to Austin, November 9, 1824. Groce's land. 1\lcNeels lmmi- grating from east Texas. Martin Allen to Austin, November 9, 1s2,1. Immigration. James Gaines to Austin, November 10, 1824. Complex barter. Gaines' claims for land as a member of the Gutierrez expedition. Complaints made against Austin by his colonists. Hugh McGutlin to Austin, Natchitoches, November 12, 1824. Austin's wagons have arrived to meet J. E. B. Austin and his sister. Benjamin Lindsey to Austin, Novembet· 14, 1824. Land. Thom·as Westnll to Austin, Winchester [Tenn.], November 14, 1824. Immi- gration. Commerce. Nathaniel Cox to Austin, November 16, 1824. The Hawkins estate, and Haw- kins' interest in the colony. List of members of the Legislature of Coahuila and Texas [Nov. lG, 1824 ( ?) ]. Bastrop's proposals in State congress, November 16, 1824-August 4, 1825, with action of the congress thereon. Also correspondence with l\fanuel Ce- vallos: (1) Resolution asking State congress to indorse: (a) Petition of colonists for permission to raise tobacco. (b) For appointment of a suitable political chief in Texas. (c) For legalizing port of Galveston. (d) Indorsing certain recommendations of Senor l\lusquiz for the benefit of Texas. (e) For reduc- tion of postal rates in Coahuila and Texas. (f) For f1·aming instructions to representatives in National Congress. (2) Bastrop to Cevallos and Viesca, May 2, 1825: (a) Argument for granting to Texas the privilege of raising to- bacco; (b) urging payment of back salary to political chief of Texas; (c) urging measures to protect the settlements in Texas ft•om Indians (especially Comanches) and to provide means of giving presents to the peaceable In- dians. Tbis cost $6,000 a year under tbe old r~gime. (3) Memorial presented by Bastrop to State congress, March 6, 1825, to be indorsed by it and forwarded as n petition to the National Congress for relief of '.rexns: (a) Description of geograpby, climate, and population of Texas. Population consisted of 2,000 at Bexar, 800 at La Bahia, 2,400 in Austin's colony, and some 10,000 on the Sabine f_rontier who had settled 'there without authority; a thousand of these, at least, were criminals from the United States, and 2,000 more turbulent characters who recognized no law but that of force. ( b) Indians: Tbe friendly ones steal cattle, and the hostile tribes kill and rob whenever they can. Trouble with botb groups aggravated by lawless Mexicans who live among them. Need presidia! troops to protect settlements. (c) Americans on the Sabine carry on illicit trade with Indians, exchanging arms for stolen horses and mules. Try to a.rrange treaty with the United States stopping this. (d) Importance of allowing Texas to cultivate tobacco. (e) Plea for re- demption of tlle paper money issued by Gov. Trespalaclos in 1.822. (f} Plea
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