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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuONAPARTE LAMAR
No. 1096 1839 Feb. 26, R. PAGE & OTHERS TO 1\1. B. LAl\IAR, [HOUSTON] Houston Feby- 26th 1835 51 To his excellency l\Iirabeau B Lamar Sir The undersigned understanding that your Excellency had kindly intimated that .in appointing a Judge for this District to supply the vacancy occasioned by the absence of the Hon B C Franklin your Excellency would regard the recommondation of a majority of the members of the Bar over whom said Judge is to preside, beg leave to commend to your favor- able consideration the claims of Isaac N Moreland Esqr a gentleman of high legal attainments unquestionable moral integrity and an individual who is known to have done the State some service in the hour in which the best claim to the notice of Government was strong arms and stout hearts. The undersigned believe also that by making the above mentioned appointment your excellency will meet the approbation of a large majority of all the members of the Bar in the second Judicial District
Robert Page J S Tomkins A 1\1 Tomkins W A Faris Thos J. Gazley J Nibbs
[Addressed]
[Endorsed]
To his Excellency
Petition for Isacc N l\Ioreland to be made Dist Judge of this
Mirabeau B Lamar
President of
District -
26th Feb 1839
the Republic o.f Te [xas]
No. 1097 1839 Feb. 2'!, JOHN P. BORDEN, GENERAL LAND OFFICE, HOUSTON, [TEXAS], TO l\I[IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE) LAMAR, [HOUSTON, TEX:.AS] • Sending for signature patents 1-31 for Galveston. A. L. S. 1 p. No. 1098 1839 Feb. 27, D. WOODLIEF AND W[ILLIAl\1] JEFFERSON JONES, HOUSTON, [TEX.ASl. TO MrIRABEAUl B[UONA- PART'E) LAMAR, [HOUSTON, TEXAS) Endorsing Dr. Samuel Pulkington for surgeon of "the corps now organizing against the Comanche Indians.'' N. S. 1 p. __ ... In Jones 's hand. "'This date should be 1839; er. the endorsement.
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