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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
HANNA AND HAWKINS TO THOHAS C. BANKS Known all Men by these presents that we John Hanna and Little- berry Hawkins jointly and severally authorise and empower and by these presents do appoint Thomas C Banks our true and lawful •Attorney to receive and to hold in our names as if we were personally present certain wares and merchandise belonging to us conformably to an Invoice herewith annexed which wares and merchandise were left by us in the year pnst at the landing of the River Colorado and at a Camp formerly held by Jacob Jennings (deceased) and we <lo further authorise and empower the said Thomas C Banks to sell or make such other disposition of any wares and Merchandise· that he may receive in our name as he may judge the best for our interests and that this instrument may have full force and virtue we have signed our names in presence of a Witness in this twenty fifth day of April in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred an[d] twenty three- Made and done in the district of the Brasos in the Province of Te.xas in the day and year afforesaid Attest HANNA AND fuwKINs By LITTLEBERRY HAWKINS E Eccleston [Rubric] I do hereby authorise and appoint Stephen F. Austin to receive, take possession of, and sell all the property mentioned in the within power of Attorney, and also to take all other measures relative thereto, or any other interest of Hanna and Hawkins which I am authorized by the said power of Attorney to perform Bexar July 23, 1823, "\Vitness THo•· C. BANKS Articles of Property at the Landing on the Colorado suposed to be L. Hawkins and taken possession of by S. F. Austin f al,out Octo- ber, 1823] 1- Broad Axe 1- Ship Carpenters do 1- Adse 3- Froes · 2- Froes 1 sold to McOrmic @ 50 cts Lb 1- Hoe 1- Blacksmiths hamer
1- Stone Do 1- do Sledge 5- Iron wedges 3- Plough molds
. . 1- Chopping axe 1 taken up and 1 m Mor1ssons possession .
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