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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
Effects out of the limits of this Colony within Three months from the date of said notice they would be liable [to .fines1] and Penaltys noticed in said official Order a notice accordingly Issued from my office which has been Complied with in all its part within time given May the 25 th 1824 • JNo P CoLEs [Rubric] Alcalde
Pnn.rAnY 1.1EETING CALLED BY AusTIN
The Government of this Province by their official letter inform me as follows- " The Deputy elected to the Legislature of this State will go on as "soon as information is received of the meeting of the other mem- •• hers who are to compose that body, I therefore indicate to you "that if the inhabitants of the Colony under your Command wish to "give any instructions to the said Deputy, by which their situation "or that of this distressed Province could probably be improved, " they can do so and remit them to this Government through you, "or to the said Deputy in person-God and Liberty Bexar 10 of :May " 1824-4-3-Signed Jose 111 aria Sanibrano acting Political chief in "the absence of the Governor. Dn Jose Antonio Saucedo-directed ·' to the Political chief of the Brasos and Colorado." In complyance with the above, the Inhabitants of this Colony under my Command are requested to convene at the Town of San Felipe de Austin on Saturday the 5 day of June next for the purpose of drawing up such instructions for the sa.id Deputy as may be deemed proper. As it will be a great inconvenience for all to come to the meeting only those can do so who wish to be present, and all others can by a written power appoint some one to represent them San Felipe de Austin May 25, 1824 STEPHEN F AUSTIN Political Chief of Brazos and Colorado
AusTIN TO Pnov1NCIAL DEPUTATION 1
Stephen F. Austin, To the :Most Excellent Deputation of the Province of Texas. I am apprized of the election, for Representative in the Constitu- tive Legislature of the State, of the Baron de Bastrop, and for substitute, Lieutenant Colonel and Sub Deacon Don Juan :Manuel
, This and the thr1ic letters to the ·provincial dcpntntlon which follow are from the Nacogdoches Archives. Translations from Bexar Archives, 'l'exas State Library.
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