580 TEXAS STATE LIBRARY promissory notes of the Govt. on my dft. of $9.000 which I had good reason to believe I would have recd. yesterday or to-day - but you can how easily imagine, than I can describe my disappointment and chagrin when I was informed yesterday, by the Treasurer that it could not be paid in consequence of an order to that effects from your Excellency.- ·why the order was given I am unable to divine, but this much I will say that my losses and sacrifices during the war which terminated in our Independence nearly ruined me, and left me largely in debt, from which embarrassments I have not been able to extricate myself to the present time, and could your Excellency, consistently with your duty to the country, instruct the 'Treasurer to pay the draft before referred to of $9500 in promisory notes it would at this particular crisis in my affairs contriblllte largely toward reinstating me in my former condition as my buildings were entirely destroyed at San Felipe and since that period I have had no place which I could properly call horne.- and in addition to this, my family has recently arrived from the U. S. and I have been com- pelled to board, inasmuch as I have not the means to erect the. neces- sary buildings for their comfort and accomodation nor can I raise it without a sacrifice of Land, unless your Excellency will order this draft paid.- I would here apprise your Excellency of a fact, of which you are probably not aware, that the stock of merchandise which I had on hand was worth as much as all the residue of the goods in San Felipe at the time of the burning thereof, and it is a matter of notoriety that I was one of the severest sufferers in consequence of the war, and have not to this day received one farthing in the way of indemnity, and should you deem it just and equitable that this: amount be paid me, and will so instruct the Treasurer you will confer a lasting obligation on · Your very o bt. Servt. Nathl. Towsend Houston 1\Iay 21st 1839 : [rubric]
[Endorsed] N Townsend Houston 21st. }Iay 1839 PETITION &c.
No. 1287
1839 May 21, J. 1\IORGA~ TO JU. B. LAl\[AR
New Washington 21st. 1\Iay 1839.
My dear Genl-
I presume you found my letter 84 on your return. "\Yell, in reference to a subject mentioned in that, and to a conversation we had in Galveston, I have been upon the look-out. There is a gentleman that would fill the office with credit to himself and to the Govt. if he would .accept it.- Independent of his facilities to afford to Govt. aid, if needed, he is the right sort of man - of un- "No . . 1250.
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