• THE AUSTIN PAPERS, 1097 the uper half of league of Land situated on the eastern Bank of the Brassos River Bounded by vVilliam Hall on the uper side -and Francis Bigum on the lower side and also the uper half of n league of ,land on the Western Bank of the Colorado River Bounded on the uper side by Thomas "Westall Granted to said Pettus by the Mexican Government by the concession dated the 10 th of July 1824-- dividing ench league so as the fronts on the river of each whole league shall be equally divided and runing thence in a Straight direction so as to divide the league equally to have and to.hold the said Tracts of land to the said R R Royall and the said Stephen F Austin their heirs administrators and ~xecutors in Trust nevertheless and upon the conditions following that is to say if said vVilliam Pettus ·shall pay to said R R Royall or in his absence to the Trustee Stephen F Austin on or before the 15 th clay of September:i8~6 forty Good merchantable mules of Reasonable age, of Gooµ. order -for the Road and of a suitable size for the Plough and it-is also understood said Royall is not to receive such wild mules as are caught wild out of the Range and the said Royall agrees ·to accept said mules in dis- charge of .fifteen Hundred dollars in discharge of part of said deed of sale upon Trust executed to Bibb and Coleman and to ·give full and -faithful credit upon the same. But If the said Pettus shall fail to make payment Punctually on or before the ·15 th clay of september 1825 delivering the said mules at San Felippe de Aust.in then the said Stephen F Austin shall proceed to sell to the highest bidder in the Town of San Felippe de Austin the said half leagues of land giveing fifteen days notice o{ said sale and the sale shall be for cash in hand which shall be immediately applyed to Pettus credit on said Trust after deducting costs of sale and the said Pettus hereby em- powers said Austin to sell Deed and Put the Purchaser in Posses- sion of said Lands without consulting said Pettus thereon and said Royall agrees provided said Pettus shall punctually Pay said forty Mules of Quality etc as expressed to release from the Deed of Trust executed to Thomas Bibb and Daniel Coleman Negroes Edmund, Joe, Anacy and Mirna but in no wise to lessen the effect and force of said deed of trust till said delivery of mules is punctually com- plyed with and then only to the four negroes above expressed and said deed to have full effect in all other relations expressed therein and also the note of hand which accompanys it and was its origin and all parties here present agree .to .accept of these presents in ·all its forms and said Austin agrees to execute .the Trust hereby re- posed in him to the best of his ability, and faithfully to pay over the money arising from the said sale of the Land should it be neces- sn.ry after deddcting the exp~nces _of the sale in Testimony whereof
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