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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
Yndividuos de su respectivo Distrito, formando cada uno el co- rrespondiente protocolo de instrumentos publicos que el·fin de cada afio se entregar11.n a su sucesor con los clemas ordenes y clocumentos que hayan recivido en·el tiempo de su mando las cuales debera reunir ultimamente en su archivo el Secretario del Ayuntamiento respectivo, entendiendose por lo que respecta 6. las ordenes que directamente se le comuniquen a V por el Gobierno, y Titulos de Tierras expeclidas por el Comicionaclo en union de V. que estos los debe .V conservar en su poder como he dicho, hasta e~ termino prefixado.-Dios y liberatad etc.-Bexar-Jose Antonio Saucedo-Sor Teniente Coro- nel D. Estevan Austin.
ORGANIZATION OF MILITIA BATTALION
4ATTALION ORDERS·
In conformity wjth the decree of the Superior Government of. the Mexican Nation dated at the City of :Mexico the 18 day of February 1823 and in complyance with the commission and instructions issued to me by Brigidier General Don Felipe de la Garza Commandant General of the Eastern Internal Provinces. dated at the city of Monterrey the 16 day of June 1823 whereby I am fully empowered and ordered to form a Battalion of :Militia in this Colony so soon as the number would justify it and to command the same with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel until the organization of this Colony ic, finally completed and the Militia are regulated by the Ayuntamientos agreeably to the laws on that subject; and considering that our numbers are sufficient to form a Battalion .and that .the public security requires it I have thought proper to order that a Battalion shall be immediately organized in· the following manner-to con- tinue untill the Government order otherwise, or untill the augmenta- tion of numbers may require an alteration- 1-The Militia on the Brazos River and its waters above the Coshatta road will form the first company- 2--The Militia on the said Brazos River and its waters from the Coshatta road to the upper line of League No 22 including the East bank of the Bernard to opposite the 22d League on a west course, will form the second Company- 3-The militia on said Brazos River and its waters from the lower line of the 2d Company to the Sea Shore and as .far East as the Chocolate Bayou and including both banks of the Bernard from the Mound down will form the third company.-,. 4-The Militia on the Colorado River and its waters above a west ' . south west D:lle that will pass through the Eagle Lake, as far west as
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