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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
No. 1009 1839 Jan. 15, 0. P. KELTON TO 1\1. B. LAMAR
Galveston Jany 15th 1839
Gen Lamar
Dear Sir
I take this opportunity of Expressing my thanks to you for the appoint of Notary Public but at the Same time I Regret to Say I Shal not. be enabled to realise the advantagess from it which I Expected the reasons which induced me to apply for it ware as follows When Doct Roberts proposed to Give mee a cituation in the custom House he Stated that I would bee permittid to Select any Situation I thought proper. I was induced for Several reason to prefer the appointment of Deputy Colector principally becaus there was little writeing to do :although not a verry elegant pensman I thought myself fully Compe- tent to do the writing which appertained to the appointment. Doct Roberts prefered that that [sic] I would take some other as he was -desirous of giving that appointment to his Son to this I willingly concented and proposed take the appointment of Cas [h]ier. the -duty of this officer is to make a primitive Entry of all the Receits of _Cash from what Ever Source they may come as well as all the disbursements in a blotter from which they are posted by the book Keeper to thair Respective accounts these entrys are all of the ·same character and verry Simple So that when once observed they Canot bee mistaken by a person of the most limited comprehension :as they are comprised of few words I thought my Self Capable ·of puting them down in intelligible characters. I Stated to Doct Roberts that the business would not Require all my time and also Said as the former notary had been a clerk in the Custom House ·under mr. Borden I thought thare wold be no impropriety in my aplyin for the Same office this he thought reasonable and accordingly made application for me. I stated to doct Roberts that I Should only Expect pay for the amount of Service which I rendered with this he appeared to bee well Satisfyed but mow [now] he inforoms mee that He thinks mee incompetent. So fare as thi~ matter is -concerned I halve nothing- to Say, but I will Say that if it Suits your views I would like to Receive the appointmint of paymaster or Commisary of purchase Contemplated in the bill for the protection -of the frontier Your friend and
Obedient Servant O.P.Kelton
[Endorsed]
[Addressed] Gen l\L B. Lamar
0 P Kilton
Galveston 15 Jany 1839 Private
Houston
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