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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
JAMES 00:\U,HNS TO AUSTIN
DE.An Sm enclosed I Send you the Result of the Election held by your order for the upper Detachment of the Colorado District. Mr. Burnum has Counted the men subject to military duty and finds there is about thirty able to Bear arms, and, we expect more dayly and I believe there are as many in the lower detachment; The people in the upper detachmt are all well pleased with the division that you have made. I wrote you by Carrete that they wanted a division but I Expect you had not Received it before you sent on the order for an Election- . the people of the upper detachment Requests me to give you thier thanks J. CUMMINS Colo Stephen F. Austin 25 th may. 1824.
JosE ANTONIO SAUCEDO TO AusTIN 1
25 de Mayo No pucliendo en la actualidad hacerse uso ninguno de las quinientas fanegas de mays que los hn.bitantes de esa Colonia ofrecieron volun- tariamente p•· sostener a su diputado en Cortes, y p•· gastos de la ~xam. Diputacion Provincial por no haber comodidad de condu- cirlo hasta la Capital de Bejar, ni oportunidad de expenderlo en este ni en aquel destino; podra V bolber a las contribuyentes los granos q•· p 11 • aquellos fines hubiesen entregado, signaficandoles q 0 • si para fines de este afio 6 principios del que entra pudiere el Gobierno dis- poner de esta contribucion en la misma especie 6 en otra equivalente, que comodamente puedan entregar, se les aclmitira, repitiendoles los mas sinceros reconocimientos de mi gratitud por los sentimientos Patrioticos que en esta parte les animan.-Dios y Libert.ad etc.-Sa n Felipe de Austin-Jose Antonio Saucedo-Sor Teniente Coronel D. Estevan Austin. MILITIA ELECTION STEPHEN F. AusTIN Lieutenant Colonel of the :Militia of the Colony on the Colorado and Brazos rivers in the Province of Texas and charged by the Mexican Govt- with the appointment of the Militia officers of said Colony untill its organization is completed-
1 From Bexar Archives, Unil"erslty of Teii:as. PollUcal Chief's Blotter, January 5, 1824. For the subscription see November 22, 1823,
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