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Al\:IERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
ELECTION PROCLAMATION
PFBLIC NOTICE
The inhabitants of the district of San Felipi de Austin in Austins Colony Province of Texas are hereby Notified to convene at the house of John McFarland in Said district on Saturday the 20th day of December next for the purpose of Electing an Alcalde for Sui.cl district for the year 1824. John McFarland and Sylvenus· Castle- man are appointed judges of thl;! Election and will appoint a clerk to make a record of each voter and the person he votes for ·which record must be sent to me as Soon as possible. GiYcn under my hand at the Town of San Felipi de Austin this 3d day of Dr 1823 3d and 2d. STEPlIEN F. A USTJN political chief
AUSTIN TO JOSIAH H. BELL
Dr Sm, Deer 4, 1823 I wish you to attend particularly to the enclosed and pray try and get me all the money you can as I must have some to send for my mother and sister-Sell the powder for $2 in cash or 250 in shaved deer skins at 15 cents pr pound or Bees wax at 5 cents pr pound I wish to get Capl Ga ... [mutilated] to take care of my colts-when you move bring down my little things that I left with you clothe etc as far as this- I thought all parties were satisfied relative to the land below when you left here-there will be no cause for dissatisfaction- ·when I first explored that part of the country two years ago I chose two places, one on the Colorado and one here, the one on the Colorado was occupied on my return from Mexico and I have given it up and the one on this river is now taken by you and Varner- I am not difficult to please nor avaricious and will sacrifice my own interests at any time in favor of those I esteem or wish to serve- you and Varner told me there was another creek below the one you chose, I am told by others that there is none and no prairie. I wanted a place at the bottom of the big Prairie to live at and I thought after what passed between us here that all parties were satisfied but from what I have heard since you are dissatisfied that I should take a quarter of a league there and have made ·reflections that if it had not been for you the whole settlement would have b[roken] etc. I will never -suffer any man to lay me under an obligation without more than an equivalent and shall therefore
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