THE AUSTIN PAPERS. 1767 tor legnlizing the ports of Galveston, Matagorda, and Brazos. (4) Viesca's reply acknowledging receipt. (5) Cevallos' reply. (6) • Bastrop to Cevallos, August 1, 1825: Glad the Government is to resume policy of giving presents to friendly Indians; m•ges n reform of unequal postal rates; explains that Snucedo's salary as political chief, and not his own, is in arrears;. Tres- pnlncios' paper money. (7) Cevallos' reply. (8) Bastrop to Viesca, August 19, 1825: Repeating his petitions for permis.sion to cultivate tobacco in Texas, open ports, extend mail system nnd reduce rates; suggesting treaty with United States to prevent illicit trading with Indians; describing unauthorized settlements on eastern frontier and p1·esenting plans for solving the problem; renewed hostilities of the Comanches. (9) Viesca's reply, October 4, 1825. (10) Bnstrop to Cevallos, August 22, 1825, describing depredations of the Comanches at Bexnr and on the frontier. (11) Cevallos to Bastrop, September 14, 1825: Measurns of the Federal Government to protect Texas from Indians; ports of Texas will be opened in n fortnight. (12) Bastrop to Cevallos, Sep- tember 26, 1825, thanking him for bis efforts. (13) Cevallos' reply, October 12, 1825, explaining delay in military program for protection of '.fexns. (H) Bastrop to Viesca, October 31, 1825, thanking him for attention to petitions. Bill of sale for ::;laves, Novemher 16, 1824. Samuel and Elizabeth Pharr lo William Pettus. James Tumlinson to Austin, November 17, 1824. Land. Austin to Samuel 1\I. Williams, November 18, 1824. Memorandum of duties. Joseph Servison to Austin.,_ November 20, 1824. Plans for improvements, mills, steamboats, etc. J. Cable to Austin, November 20, 1824. Commerce. Return of the wagons sent by Austin to meet his mother nnrl sister at Natchitoches. Georg~ Huff fo Austin, November 21, 1824. Emigration from Mississippi. William Johnson to Austin, November 21, 1824. Emigration from l\lissls- sippi. Dr. John Sibley to Austin, November 21, 1824. Claim of late Dr. Robinson against Mexican Government, which he traded to William Alexander Danlin. European news. Presidential election of 1824. Churchill Fulshear to Austin, November 22, 1824. Asking him to hire from Col. Groce a negro man. George Huff to Austin, November 24, 1824. Emigration from Mississippi. Bastrop's letter saying that Austin keeps part of the fees for land does Austin great hurt. Austin to Andrew Robinson, November 26, 1824. Commission as captain in militia. Austin to William S. Brown, November 26, 1824. Commission as lieutenant in militia. Seth Ingram to Austin, November 27, 1824. Dissatisfaction of settlers ov~r Inequality of land grants. Difficulty of division of land when two single men united to form n "family." Boone Whiteside to Austin, November 28, 1824. Application for land. James Whiteside to Austin, November 29, 1824. Concerning land. Timothy Flint to Austin, Alexandria, November 29, 1824. Asks Austin for nn article, Texas and the Provincias Internas, to be used in "Ilecollectious of ten years spent in the valley of the Mississippi." Martin Allen to Austin [Nov. -, 1824]. Land. Trade. Austin to Humphrey Jackson [Nov. -, 1824]. Commission and instructions ns nlcalde. Price list and land office currency [Nov. -, 1824]. Price list, December 1, 1824.
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