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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
PETITION FOR APPOINTl\IENT OF A SURVEYOR
To his Honor Col. STEPHEN F. AuSTIN ,v e the people of San Jacinto and Vicinity humbly beg leave to represent that vVhereas in our humble opinion the lands in this Sec- tion of your Honor's Colony-are of a quality not to warrant a general Survey of the whole and whereas as we humbly suppose there will be emegrants dropping in from time to time requiring more or less locations in this Section of the Country and in that case a local surveyor will be very convenient both to ourselves and to those who may hereafter come. Therefore if it is not contrary to the regu- lations of your Honor we humbly beg the apointment of such an one amongst our Citizens--we nominate to your Honor Doct. J. Hunter who is one of the first settlers here, and so as in duty Bound we will forever Pray Oct. the anno Domini 1824
D. E. Bayles Page Ballew Benjn ,-vest "\Vm Scott 1\1 B. Nuckols
John ,vmiams John R. Harris Isaac Raudson 1Villiam ,vhitlock Anthony :Miller Richard Vince Wm. J. Harris John Kenny John vVilliams John Jones George Harison John Owens John Vince
James Hughson Christian Smith Isaac Hughson Ziba Leslie Thomas Spencer C. C. Givens Henry Slaughter Wm Vince
AUSTIN TO AUTHORITIES OF LA BAHIA
[About November 1, 1824.1] Translation of the answers given by Col. Austin to the official letter from the Priests and authorities of La Bahia Reverend and respected Gentleman, I received your official letter dated the 28 of October in which you give us the pleasing intelligence that the Carankaway Indians had agreed to and signed the treaty of peace we made with a part of their chiefs, you also request in behalf of the Indians that the division line between us could b~ ex- tended to La Baca- Our desire being to guarantee a secure and permanent peace with the Indians, the only reason we had for wishing limits fixed for 1 Fot' this date seo J. H. Kuykendall, "Recollections of Early Texas," in The (Juarterlll of the Texas StatP. Historical Association, VII, 36.
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