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AMERICAN HISTORlCAL ASSOCIATION.
kinds, at this time it bas by common habbit taken the name of Austin's Colony and if ,there should be no objection made by the Deputation I should wish that the establishing the Recorders office should be in the following form- The most Excellent Deputation of the Province of Texas taking into consideration the inportance and necessity of establishing an office in Austins Colony in this Province for the purpose of regis- tering and recording the Mu·ks and Brands of hogs and Cattle and titles and sales of land or other property amongst the Inhabitants of said Colony, have thought proper to decree and do hereby decree that Stephen F. Austin Judge of said Colony is hereby fully author- ized to establish .in said Colony a Recorders or R~gisters office for the purpose of recording and registering in Books to be kept for that purpose all Marks and Brands of Hogs Horses cattle or other stock and all tit1es for landed property and real estate and all sales or other transactions between the inhabitants of said colony proper to be recorded. You know that in the United States there is a recorders office of this kind in every County and the inhabitants here are therefore accustomed to it and will not be satisfied unless one is properly es- tablished by the highest authority of the Province It is a subject of great importance and is, so just and approachable a request that I think it cannot be refused. [ESTEVAN F. AUSTIN.]
ANTHONY R. CLARKE TO AUSTIN
Nacogdoches 3 rd FebY 1824
DEAR SIR I have the pleasure to acknowledge the Receipt of your letter, the date I cannot refer to as I am from home, I can only thank you for the confidence you place in me,-I·have made all the en- quierys in my power for the carractors you requested but can pro-, cui:e nothing worth writing Prater was plundered of much of his stock which is· an evidence in his favour as I have not known an instanc~ of their stealing from each other-This part of this District is setling very fast we have now a· majority and huve punished and driven off most of the bad carractors, lust week four men made their escape from the officers sent to apprehend them from the upper settlement about the Tenaha viz Jeffry Brown Henry Brown James Hogan and Waller Hogan enough of their property has been etatched to pay for the solen property and the expences . ,An order has been received here from Salcaudoi!' [Saucedo] at St Antonio for Elections to be held for alcaldes, the Election was held
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