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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
.pa. la defensa de estos havitantes,,. lo que espero merecer su superior aprobacion. Por todos estns difictiltades que diariamte tenemos con los Indios convendria que estas tropas se augmentasen con un Sargento y diez hombres y quc el Gov 00 tomase las providencias necesarins pa. la • paga de ellos si esto tubiese lugar avisanclome enveria a Bexar pn recivir alli sus sueldos. Dios guarde a V. ms. Ans. Casa de Castle- man Rio Colorado 11 de Agosto de 1823. 3a y 2°. ESTEVAN F. AUSTIN.
[Endorsed:] Copy of an official letter to the Govr Dn Luciano Garcai August 11, 1823.
AUSTIN TO BASTROP
A.ugt. 12, 1823
Dn Sm, I have engaged Mr Ingram as a Surveyor at the rate of five dollars a mile he to find his chain ca1Tiers and marker You will please direct him as to the quantity to be surveyed in each tract and the manner of laying it off-As a gen 1 rule no Sitio tracts ought to be divided but I agreed to divide Mr Castlemans, as otherwise he cannot get his quantity without interfering with Rabb or Buck- ner-I shall return by the time you have finished those two surveys, and will meet you a.t Woods-- STEPHEN F. AusTIN [Rubric] El Baron De Bastrop
ELEOI'ION RETURN
James Cummins for Alcalde [14 votes]
VOTERS NAMES
1 Joseph Kekendall 2 Jacob Betts 3 Seth Ingram 4 Wm- B. Dewese [Dewees]
8 Micajah Reeder 9 Jesse Burnum 10 James Ross 11 Thomas Williams 12 Robert Kekendall 13 Thomas Jamison 14 Rawson Alley
5 Thomas Gray 6 Charles Garret 7 Daniel Gillaland
I certify that at an election held at the House of Robert Keken- dall [Kuykendall] on Saturday the 16 th of August 1823 for the
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