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THE AUSTIN PAPERS.
.AUSTIN ET AL. TO PROVINCIAL DEPUTATION
[June 10,1 1824.] The Inhabitants of the Settlement formed by the Empresario Stephen F. Austin in the province of Texas at a general Meeting Convened by said Austin on the 5 th of June instant in _Consequence of the indication given by Y. E. in the Official letter dated the 10u 1 of May last that if the Inhabitants wished to give any instruc- tions to the deputy in the Legislature of this State \Vhereby their situation or that of the Inhabitants of this distressed province would probably be benefited they could do so and remit them .to the M. E~ deputation or to the deputy in person-Unanimously elected Stephen F. Austin Jared E. Groce, James Cummings and Jno P. Coles a Committee for the purpose of drafting Memorials to the Sovereign Congress of the Mexican Nation on the subject of slavery and the cultivation of Tobacco which Committee were directed by the said Inhabitants to forward the Memorial on those subjects to your Ex- cellency with a request that should they be approved of that Y. E. will have the goodness to transmit them to the sovereign Congress of the Nation supported by the recommendation of your excellency and also that Y. E. would be pleased to petition the Congress of the State to support the memorials with their recommenclution and influence- The Inhabitants of this Colony also directed the Undersigned their Committee to return the sincere thanks of these Colonists to Y. E. for giving them the said Indication and to present to Y. E. their high respect and Confidence in the Talents and patriotism of the .M. E. D. [Most Excellent Deputation] and that they will Cheerfully Cooperate so far as their means extend in promoting any measures Calculated to advance the prosperity of this hitherto neg- ·1ected and distressed provence.
• ESTEVAN F. AUSTIN }
JARED E. GROCE
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SANTIAGO CUMMINGS JuAN P. CoLES
To the most Ext Deputation of this Province
PETITION TO CONGRESS [Copy by Austin.J
Stephen F. Austin, Jared E. Groce, James Cummings and Jno. P Coles a Committe urnunimously appointed a.t a General l\foeting held on the 5 th of June instant the Inhabitants of the Colony fonn 4 in the Province of Texas by the empresario S F Austin in the name
1 This date should· be Juno 16. Sec page 832. 25007°-24-VOL 2, PT 1-53
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