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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
Contract for hire of slaves, December 3, 1824. John Cooke to Austin, December 3, 1824. Land claims. Settlers of Snn Jacinto glad to be included in your colony. Solomon R. Bolin to Austin, December 5, 1824. Immigration. Gaspar Flores to Austin, December 6, 1824. Copy of lPederal Constitution. Military plans to protect Texas from Indians. - Austin to Gaspar Flores [answering letter of Dec. 6, 1824]. Measures that are necessary to people Texas: (1) :H'ree immigration with privilege of intro• ducing slaves for personal use; (2) colonization commission composed of one Mexican and one American; (3) open ports to trade with Europe and the rest of the world. Summary of advantages which the State would enjoy from such measures. J. Thomas to Au~tin, Alexandria, December 6, 1824. Introducing Thomas Hooper. Green DeWitt to Austin, December 6, 1824. Asking Austin's advice in apply- ing for colonization contract. Dr. John Sibley to Austin, December 10, 1824. State (Louisiana) and na- tional politics. Internal improvements. Europe. Can buy up claims of Gutierrez's men if Mexican _Government will recognize them. A. H. Adams to Austin, December 11, 1824. Laud. Immigration. R. Carpenter to J. E. B. Austin, Decemb·er 13, 1824. Wants work as sm·• veyor. Nathaniel Cox. to Austin, December 14, 1824. The Hawkins estate. John Botts to Austin, New Orleans, December 15, 1824. Concerning a dis- pute about a horse. Sends Austin a cake of soap and a quire of paper. Austin to bis sister (Mrs. James F. Perry), December 17, 1824. Good immi- gration from Mississippi. "Some with a number of negroes." Hopes to gain religious toleration. Pioneer conditions. Character certificate-Coatsworth P. Welborn, December 20, 1824. Character certificate--Samuel C. Hirams, December 20, 1824. Austin to governor of Conbuila and Texas, December 20, 1824. Description of local government in Austin's colony. Need of ayuntamiento. Conditions in Nacogdoches. Need of l.egalized ports to promote cotton and other agricultural industry. Election returns, December 22, 1824. Memorial by Austin to the Legislature of Coahuila and Texas, December 22, 1824: .(1) Wants copy of law concerning settlement of estates of deceased persons. (2) Law concerning debts contracted before entering colony. Thinks law should exempt them from prosecution for 12 years. (3) Law concerning deeding and conveying lands. Describes the method he has been, followinJ. (4) Asks whether English and French may be used in deeds and records. Has used Spanish consistently, but not " one in a hundred " of the colonists under- stands Spanish. (5) Asks how to procure sealed paper for 1825. (6) Asks instructions for punishment of thieves, robbers, etc. Position on frontier ex- poses Bettlement to rogues of both nations. (7) Argument for establishment of mnil service as far as the Sabine; United States would establish a line to connect with the Mexican route. (8) Repeats request for permission to settle additional families and asks about slaves. (9) Instructions for treatment of fugitive slaves from the United States, and for the punishment of kidnappers of free negroes who bring the negrocs to Texas. (10) Has Austin authority to punish counterfeiters of Louisiana bank paper who circulate it in Texas? (11) Is he authorized to establish provisional regulations if laws on certain subjects are not available? (12) Suggests appointment of superior judge and
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