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P ,\PER. OF MIRABEAU BUONAP.\RTE L.\MAR
ro. 295
GENER.AL COU CIL, SAN FELIPE DE A USTIN, [TEXAS]1•
1836 Jan. 13, TEX
Resolutio~, submitting James W. Robinson for Henry Smith as the executive medium of communication and forbidding the printing .of any documents issued by Smith upon the public credit after [Jan.] 11. Printed. , Appended to no. 290, p. 4-5. No. 2!.IG 1836 Jan. 14, JAi'\IES W. ROB! SON, S.Ai. FELIPE DE AUSTI1 , ['l'EXAS]1°
Governor's message. Printed. 4 p.
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. 1836 Jan. 14, J.C. 1 EILL TO THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL 11
Commandancy of Bejar, January 14, 1836.
To the Governor and C01mcil, San Felipe de A11stin. SIRS,-! beg to refer you to my official communication, under date of yesterday, since when,· I am sorry to inform you, that our situation becomes snch as to be compelled to acquaint yon of it by express. There can exist but little .doubt th;'lt the enemy is advancing on this post, from the number of families leaving town today, and those preparing to follow; among which, is that of John W. Smith, who has this evening . enaaged wagons to remove his family ,into the colonies. We are in- formed that the advance of the enemy is on the Rio Frio, and so situ- ated are we, for want of horses, that we can not, through our own exertions, gain any information, not beina able to send out a small spy company. The volunteers that entered for two or four months, under Burles[on and John]son did so with an understanding thitt they were, for that period, to be paid monthly; which not having been complied with, has weakened me very much, as several left yesterday and to-day, and I have not now more than seventy-five men fit for duty, and' afraid that number will be [greatly] reduced in a few days. Unless we are [rein] forced and victualled [we] must become an easy prey to the en[emy i]n case of an attack. l\fy frequent [rep] etitions of the subject of [our] distress, a[nd tlhe apprehensions of an efnemy] arise pa(rtl]y from the in- terest I feel fofr the] country, and a wish to preserve thosre I]ands she has .acquired in the infant stage of her cam[pai] gn; and being well "Pri~ted in the Journal of the Proceedings JJf the General OouncU, 311,. reprinted, In Gammel, H. P. N., Laws of Texas, I, 775. ""Printed In the Journal of the Proceedings of the General Council, 319; reprinted in Gammel, H. P. N., Laws of Texas, I, 780. "Printed. Appended to no. 300.
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