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1835 May 2, H[E1lRY] l\IEIGS ,.. EW YORK, [NEW YORK] TO STEPHEN F[ULLER] AUST! , [l\IE..tICO, MEXICO) 37 Acknowledging receipt of Austin's letter of ~far. 31, inclosing $500; expressions of sympathy, advice, and promise of assistance, Copy by Lamar. 1 p. In no. 3, p. 20. No. 201 1835 June 4, A. BRISCOE A1 D OTHERS. AGREEME T TO l\1EET AT HARRISBURG ON [JUr"E] 6 TO MARCH AGAI 1 ST A TAHUAC Harrisburg, Texas, June 4th, 1[8]35 We Citizens of Texas feeling that we have been imposed upon by cer- tain men purporting to be officials of the government and stntioned at Anahuac, inasmuch as they have stationed themselves at the above mentioned town, and [pretend Y a Y] strict execution of the Mexican customs laws to the injury of many innocent [individuals proceeding in f] many instances in violation of the law [having to do?] with bringing contraband by paying a to the collector, and to the govern- only crime them at that of a past of the passen crime, and submit to a trial at the next port, on any charges preferred against them and all this without any information having been given to the civil authorities either of the municipality or of the Department, that any such functionary had been appointed, there- fore We have come to the cool determination to submit to no more imposition of the kind that will prove ruinous to the country, b.'· destroying the commerce and stopping the emigration without such impositions resolved that the most apparent method is to discharge and send the functionary stationed there; and believing that twenty men would be sufficient to effect it ,ve hereby subscribe our names and pledge ourselves that can be assembled we will me'et at Ilarrishurg on Saturday the 6th inst and after electing our officers proceed to Anahuac place, or DIE. A. Briscoe l\L W. Smith D. Harris backed out William Perkins D. Gallaher - remained on the Ohio "To be printed ln the Austin Papers.
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