THE AUSTIN PAPERS. 693 tion in consequence of this I have taken the liberty to trouble you on the subject to ask your advice, Knowing that you are always ready to promote justice-.AJ.l I wish for is justice-if the land is mine I wish to have the benifit of it. I have been in hopes that the Govt. would appoint Commission- ers for the purpose of deciding and finally determining all the old claims in that district, and to remove the intruders who were on them but if this is not done, will you have the goodness to advise me what I ought to do--I am very old and getting infirm, but if it is necessary for me to go to Saltillo I will do so and present my docu- ments to the Govt. I will wate for your advise before I adopt any further measures hoping in the mean time that you will pardon me for troubling you with this letter and that you will have the good- ness to give me your council on the subject-- Sm Mr Asa l\fitchel informs me that he has a legal demand against a certain Samuel W. Robeson, and that some doubts hnve arisen rela- tive to the collection of said demand in consequence of the trans- action on which it is founded having been done without the limits of this nation. To remove this difficulty and prevent similar doubts in future, I have to inform you, that there is no law or custom to preYent the collection of foreign debts, that is, of debts contracted without the limits of this Nation, and that it is your duty to proceed to an in- vestigation of the case a,bove referred to, or any other of a similar nature when properly called on to do so. Cummings September 5, 1823 3d 2d. STEPHEN F. AusTrN [Rubric] Supr Judge. For Josiah H. Bell Alcalde of the Brazos district. AusTIN TO JosIAH H. BELL
RoBERT ANDREWS TO AUSTIN
Parras, Sept- 5 th 1823.
DEAR AUSTIN I had the satisfaction to receive your letters of the 9 th and 24 July dated in Bexar, but you speak of one from Monterrey by private conveyance which I never rec\ that of the 9 th I answered by last mail supposing that you have an arangement ma.de to convey letters from Bexar to the Collorado.
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