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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
said Chriesman agrees to execute his work accurately and in a good and workman like manner and to complete it as speedily as possible establishing Corners with bearing true at each principal corner of a survey with the initials of the Owners names marked on the bearing Trees where the Owner is known or erecting sufficient mounds of Earth in Prairie at least Three feet high and marking every line not bounded by a River or Creek which runs through Timber so that it can be easily Traced and followed and finally To make out correct returns and plots of Each survey To sd Austin on completion of the work in the manner above stated the sd Chriesman shall be entitled to demand and receive from each settler pay for surveying their lands at the rate of five dollars pr Spanish mile payable in property er three dollars pr mile payable in Cash to be paid by the settler and ior which payment the said Austin is not to be in any manner ac- countable or responsible more than to refuse to deliver the titles to any settler until he brings a certificate from the surveyor or stating that the surveying fees of his land were paid or settled For the faithful complyance of all which the sd Chriesman Obligates himself under the penalty of being liable for any damages which may arise from a non or incorrect Compliance with this Contract San Felipe de Austin Augt 20 th 1824
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HORATIO CHRIESMAN STEPHEN F. A USTlN
AonF..EMENT: AusTIN AND JosE ANDRES RAMIREZ En la villa de Sn Felipe de Austin a los veinte dias del mes de Agosto del afio de mil ochocientos veinte y quatro, hize trato con el Ciudadano Andres Ramirez de la villa de Mier pa qe me entregue en esta villa en todo el mes de rnarzo en el afio q biene unas yeguas p• le cria qe seran yeguas nueve sitas de buen cuerpo y buenas p• hacer manadas-hta cinquenta Yeguas a tres pesos cacla cabeza dinero contado 6 hta cien Yeguas pagandole la mitacl en dinero y el otro mitad en otro tpo en efectos-tambien se obligo dicho Ramirez de en- tregarme un Burro manadero experimentado de un color de estima- cion y de aprimera calidad a razon de sesenta pesos-tambien dos ·Burras con los Burritos a razon de quinze pesos cada cabeza siendo de buenas cualidades pa cria, y p• qe tenga su debido efecto lo firma- mos los dos con los testigos abajo firmados • ESTEVAN F. AUSTIN JOSE ANDRES RAMIREZ Testigo de asist• SAMUEL M WILLIAMS [Rubric] [Rubric] [Rubric]
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