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sides yon can get a dead cane break on the bank of the Dernard 6 or 7 Miles below, the use of which you are "welcome to-but I ad- vise you to put in peach land in preference to Prairie- Advise all the new comers who are decent Men to go below I wish to push the s~ttlement there so as to make it strong enough to defend itself against the Indians-please enquire into the dis- pute between G Robinson and Lynch and advise me what in justice to both ought to be done If Newman does not go to the Colorado advise him to go below- s. F. AUSTIN [.Addressed:] Mr J. I-I. Bell Compliments to Mrs. Bell and Tong-My good friend J. H. Haw- kins is dead. I have met with some things to vex me and fear my best friends will sometimes think my temper a little unruly-but they must bear with me and in the end they will find that my heart is right-
AusTIN TO BENJAMIN FowLEn 1
~fa BENJAMIN FowLER Please let Mr Betts have forty five pounds of Manufactured and twenty five pounds of hand Tobacco on My Account Jany 8, 1824 S. F. AusTIN [Rubric] 25 1 b• Manufa 4 • j 25 1 b• hand 20 1 b• Man 4 for R. Ally for Kirkendall 1
• See above, December 27, 1823.
DECREE AGAINST ASSEMBLIES
[Translation by Austin]
The Supreme Executive Power appointed provisionally by the Sovereign Mexican Constitutional Congress to all who shall see these presents Know ye-that considering the great evils resulting to the people from the abuse made of popular meetings, (juntas) to treat of Subjects which are deemed by th~m o·f importance, :when each one of the Constituted Authorities has its limits and attributions ·des- ignated and the conduct which they are to observe in the different cases that may occur we have thought proper to resolve as a gen• principle • • ' 1 That all meetings, (juntas) or unions o~ whatever clnss they may be which are not authorised by the laws are positively pro-
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