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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
· No. 1223
1839 Apr. 24, THO[l\IAS] J. RUSK, NACOGDOCH~S, [TEXAS], TO l\I[IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAl\IAR, HOUSTON, [TEXAS] Endorsing W. L. Underwood to succeed W. H. Jack as a compiler of laws. A, L. S. 2 p.
No. 122-! 1839 Apr. 25, C. B. STUART TO l\I. .B. LAMAR
To his Excellencv General l\Iirabeau B Lamar I president of the Republic ~ of Texas l Sir
'' T would most respectfully a~k leave to represent the confused state of things upon our Southern County boundary- also the Northern boundary of the County of Harrisburg. And to pray your Excellency's-consideration of a means corrective. and remedial- The Southern boundary of the Cournty of Wasbington and that on the :~forth of Harrisburg- Well known at one time- has. since the opening of the land office been thrown into dispute and conflict having in many instances been left far in the rear by the invading Deputy Surveyors from Harrisburg County- The act creating the county of Montgomery gave to us all that part of "\Vashington East of the Brazos, and in the latter part of the act intended specially to define to us all the advantages of the territory of "\Vashington, East of the Brazos mentioned a creek which was by Congress supposed to be the proper and before known and recived Southern boundary of "\Vashington on the East of the Brazos- In this they were in great error, either by misrepresentation or from want of due information,-Lake Creek was substituted for Spring Creek-the proper and established South boundary of Wash- ington, a distance of some 12 or 15 miles existing between. To show the correctness of what is here stated I have only to refer to the older inhabitants near and upon Spring Greek to the creation of the mulllicipality of Harrisburg- to the act of the Provisional Govern- ment defining the limits of the County of Harrisburg, (or l\Iunici- pality) to the communication of the chief Justice of that County to the Editor of the Telegraph- printed in the same, of the bounds of his county- Congress in the session of 1838 became aware of the error and endeavoured to correct it by "an act to define the boundary line of the county of 1\fontgomery"- Shortly after the opening of the Land office it became known to us that the Deputies of Harris- burg were within our limits but supposing it casll'al or the comple- tion of surveys which had been commenced in Harrisburg near the line- But little attention was paid to the infraction-becoming very apparent that our previous surveys far within our line had been by them resurveyed.. I communicated the fact to l\Ir Bo~den, who im-
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