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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
No. 992 [1839 c. Jan. 7] ROBERT EDEN E2ANDY Obituary. Clipping from a Philadelphia newspaper. With no 1018. No. 993
1839 Jan. 8, W[ILLIS] ROBERTS, GALVES'T0N, [TEXAS], TO M[IRABEAU] B[U0NAPARTE] LAMAR, [TEXAS] Dr. Kelton's incompetency; his own desire for a change "that will be satisfactory to him." A. L. S. 1 p. ''Private.'' No. 994 1839 Jan. 9, GE0[RGE] l\L COLLINSWORTH, MATAGORDA, [TEXAS], TO HARRY KENDRICK AND EDWARD L. HOMES, HOUSTON, [TEXAS'] Endorsing H. 0. Watts for collector of the port of Matagorda, in the event of its separation from Lavaca. A. L. S. 1 p.
No. 995
1839 Jan. 9, A. S. JOHNSTON, [HOUSTON], TOM. B. LAMAR, [HOUSTON]
War Department 9th Jany. 1839
To
His Excellency
Mirabeau B. Lamar President of the Rep of Texas Sir-
Agreeably to your instructions Brig Genl Doug• lass has been authorised to bring into active service eight Hundred men, at least one half Infantry & the other portion mounted men to be employed in conjunction with the force already under his com- mand consisting of one company of militia & about one hundred & fifty friendly Indians against the hostile indians on the Northern frontier if necessary- I deem this force with that in the field under Gen. Rusk together with the regiment to be raised under the com- mand of Col Karnes sufficient to prosecute the war wi,th the Indians to a speedy termination- If the force should be brought into active service which Gen Douglass is authorised to raise, an appropriation of $333.076 should be made by Congress to maintain them in active service for six months, this estimate includes pay subsistence, cloth-
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