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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
try and get airthe people to sign the paper I sent down relative to the appointment of the Baron and those you cannot see before do it on the 1 of May-If you can get any thing Suitable try and make a fiag Red, lV hite and Green, and endeavor to pass the day on the pt in a lively and agreeable manner-it was my wish to See the whole Colony com·ened at one place on this occasion, but that would have been too inconvenient s. F. AUSTIN. tell Mr. Allsberry that Parker started this day to go and trade with the Lipans John Austin has gone with him and I regret Allsberry was not here to go- This is [written in a] great hurry [Addressed:] Josiah H Bell Lower Settlement AUSTIN TO JOSI.AH H. BELL. Srn Enclosed I send you a translation of the Constitutional Decree of the Sovereign Congress of the Mexican nation establishing the form of Government also I send you a proclamation of the Political Chief of this Province to the inhabitants of this Colony, and an address of my own to the Settlers- 1 The Political Chief of the Province by his official letter dated the 18 March lust has ordered that all the inhabitants of this Colony should swear to the Constitutional Act: and to the Federal Repub- lican System of Government and considering the extent of this dis- trict and the inconvenience which the inhabitants of the lower part of it would experience if they were compelled to come to this place, I have thought proper to convene them at the house of J. B. Baily on Saturday the first day of May next, as you will perceive by the enclosed notices which you will put up without delay Should the Alcalde of this district not attend you are hereby ap- pointed to act on ·the 1 st • of May in his place, and you will accord- inly first read to the people this letter-then the Constitutional act- then the Proclamation of the Political Chief of the Province, and then my address to the settlers-you will then state to them the oath which is in these words-" you swear to observe and obey the Con- stitutional Act of federation of the Mexican Nation" to which they will all answer" yes we swear" and then let them give three cheers,· fire a salute of small arms, or any other demonstration of joy and rejoicing that may be deemed proper by the people- The oath need
a Below, Ma;r 1, 1824.
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