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PAPERS oF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
No. 819
1838 Sept. 26, WILLIAM KERBEY, FRANCIS R[ICHARDl LUB- BOCK AND JO[H]N W. ELDREDGE, HOUSTON, [TEXAS], TO MIRABEAU B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, OAK GROVE, [NEAR HOUSTON] Communicating a resolution of the Milam Guards, Sept. 24, rela- tive to honorary membership in the organization. L. S. [by proxy?] 1 p. Endorsed: "Committee of the 'Milam Guards' See no. 818. "
No. 820
1838 Sept, 28, SAl\I[UE]L A[LEXANDER] ROBERTS, GALVES- TON, [TEXAS], TO l\I[IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, HOUSTON, TEXAS Plans for the family residence in Houston; Lamar's·movements; a letter from Judge [Ja,mes] Webb, noting the sending of a Civil Code of Louisiana; his plans; a question as to his eligibility for the chief -justiceship; his own editorial in the [ Commercial] Intelligencer of today on the appointment of Birdsall by President [Houston] ; Bird- sall 's suspected authorship of ·a '' savage article'' in the Civilian of the latter part of June; Lamar's 1--emissness as a correspondent; land scrip to send to Li.ve Oak Point; personal messages. A. L. S. 2 p.
No. 821
[1838 Sept. ?] , AN'ONYl\IOUS. REl\IARKS UPON THE TEXAS NAVY 98
REMARKS UPON THE NAVY ITS FORMATION &C
The want of an efficient Navy has been seriously felt since the forma- tion of a government in Texas, and more particularly within the past. year, when the commerce has become so important that means should have been resorted to, for the purpose of securing the revenue accru- ing therefrom, and yet no steps have been taken to foster that scource of wealth, the principal step is having a Naval force at all times upon our coast, to protect the property of our citizens, or that of the foreign merchant, whose vessels richly freighted have thru the intervention of divine· Providence, (rather than any protecting power of our Government) arrived in safety in our harbours; I .. Cf. The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, VII, 223, a "Sketch of the Texas Navy" by midshipman George F. Fuller; ibid., XII, 165 and 249, XIII, 1 and 85, the "Navy of the Republic of Texas" by Alex Dienst. Cf. also the report to the president of W. M. Shepherd acting secretary of the navy on Sept. 30, 1837, printed in the House Journal of the called session of Sept. 25, 1837 of the second Congress, p. 166; and the act of Nov. 4, 1837, in Gammel, H. P. N., Laws of Texas, I, 1355. 15-Llbrary,
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