PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAl\IAR 597 necessarily co.ntracting debts which cannot be liquidated With Government paper and no Solvent Bank notes or l\Ietalic Courrency in Circulation no District Courts to Govern Capital causes, but minor Courts issuing executions, and while the soldier is ranging the frontiers gruarding the Creditor and the well fed officer, the last cow and hog is sold which w.as left as the last resort for the support of his wife and children, under such an unequal opperation of law the Citizens of this Remote Region is much Complaining, therefore for speedy relief we will still look to the generous 1\1 B L. to have the line run, our Lands Patented and our laws in equal opperation for which under deep soliciture of soul I have Thus taken the liberty of pre [ sen J ting to Your Excellency this Communication, and not having been in the habit of writing or speaking on public occasions, and making no pretentions to deep Science or intuitive intellect, I hope therefore, that Your Excellency will duely appreciate my motive and pass over my errors, and should you think it not too great, condescencion, to spend a few moments of Your leisure, in writing to me on the subject' of our Concern as above st.ated You will confer a lasting obligation, on a friend who have often read with great interest Your letter to the Cabinet of Texas on the disposition to be made of Sante Anna likewise Your Inaugural Address and message to Congress, and would conceive it a favor and would read with much Interest a private document on the present Occasion. in conclusion, permit me to subsc·ribe myself, ·with high Consideration Your devoted Friend - B. Gooch [rubric] ·P. S. on the opening of the Land office I could not obt.ain such books in Red River County on the law Required for Record Books I sent about 60 miles and obtained two small Blank Books and the weather being intensly cold insomuch that the Ink would Congeal into ice before a mans name could be writin, consequintly I was under the necessity of abridging my records which on examination presents more the form of note Books than formal records my design was so soon as I could obtain a set of well bound Books to Trans- cribe them, but not having obtained them before I was called upon to hand m:y Books over to the Qounty Clk I therefore should esteem both the expense and the labor as a blessing Yet to have the privaledg of transcribing those records as I had intended, my notes taken before the Board is sufficiently full to make a formal Record and if I could be granted the privaledge I would not be ashamed for my Books to be examined by your Excellency, Judge Tarrant and the County Court Clerk is well acquainted with most of the Trans- actions of the former Board having both of them been imployd. as assistants occasionally in my office, They are therefore well ac- quainted with the difficulties under which J have labored - l\lay Your Public and Private life be lengthy, prosperous, & Happy, is the prayr of B. G-.
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