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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR
you will in time have many 'distracted states petitioning to be let into your confederacy -At least your chance of long pea·ce, will be greater, the inore retired you are, from the joining interests of our illimit- able territory. I· must stop- I ·have thrown together the foregoing without order and without reflection- There is nothing in it, I sup- pose, that you have not thought of yourself; but the good int.t:_nt_ which prompted it, will be duly appreciated by you; and if there be one random idea that can be of service to you, I shall feel myself amply repaid for the little trouble that it has cost me- y our sincere friend · & wellwisher- A. B. Longstreet
No. 641
[1837?], ANONYMOUS
Historical notes on the circumstances and conditions of the sur- render of Fannin and the Goliad massacre. A? Df. 2 p. Incomplete. Almost illegible..
No. 642
[1837?], ALEX[ANDE]R LE RAY DE CHAUMONT, [HOUSTON? TEXAS]
Memorandum for CoL ·wells, regarding inquiries for mail and effects from New Orleans for Le Ray de Chaumont. A. Df. 1 p.
No. 643
[1837?, JAS. H. STARR, HOUSTON]. SUGGESTIONS FOR LAND LEGISLATION I would suggest that patents issue upon all claims not palpably fraudulent. that is, where no information has been given to the Comr.- Genl Land Office that fraud was practised in procuring the Certificate, and where only one certificate has been given to the same individual. The patent to be granted in the name of the person who procured the Certificate and to express upon its face that the claim upon which it is based will be subject to investigation for a period of five years- Then offer a reward to any one who will by other evidence than his own oath convict by an action in the District Court an individual of fraud in procuring any land Certificate-the reward to consist of a portion of the land upon which such Certificate may have been located. And to guard against malicious prosecutions make the prosecutor liable for costs in case of failure to convict. By this course the good titles or those founded upon the qualifi- cations required by law are virtually confirmed and purchasers
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