The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Volume I

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P .\PERS OF .. [IRABE,\U BUONAP.\RTE LAMAR

tive paper and belong to my office. You will also demand and bring me the terms on which the armed vessel Invincible has been tendered and accepted by the Government. You will further notify them that if these things are not promptly complied with, and they immedjately desist from their injurious and djsorganizing operations, that I will immediately order their arrest and transmission to the post of Bejar, to be tried by Martial Law. You will immediately make to me your report. Given from under my hand at my office. IIlE Y Sl\IITH, Gove1·nor. No. 315 1836 Feb. 2, [FR NCIS W.] JOH1TSO.1, SAl PATRICIO, [TEXAS] TO [JAMES W. FA I , JR., COPAl~O? TE '"AS]2 9 Santa Anna's advance and present predicament; the Liberal move- ment in Zacatecas, Guadalaxara, Tamaulipas, and Nnevo Leon; pros- pects of Liberal co-operation with Texas if not alienated by a "pre- mature declaration of independence''; Gonzales, Canales, and Placadores; the weakness of fatamoros; the importance of a qui-ck m'ovement. Copy (extract). 2 p. J.ro. 316 1836 Feb. ·s, JOH APPLEMAN, COPA ro, [TEXAS) 30 Receipt to J. W. Fannin for $542 for freight and transportation. D.S. 1 p. With no. 318. No. 317 1836' F'eb. 3-20, COL. J. W. FANNli JR., [COPANO]. LIST AND Al\fOUKT OF DRAFT ArTD RECEIPTS 31 List and AmQunt of Drafts & Rects. drawn on Provi ional Government of Texas by Col. J. ·vv ;Fannin Jr Agent

Drafts.

Draft in favor of J . Appleman for freight and transportation of Troops .. $ 500.00

Feby. 3 1836

"'Printed In no. 319, Q. V. Previously printed in The Southwestern His- torical Quarterly, XXIII, 183; but reprinted here for the sake of making no. 319 complete. _ 14 Printed In The Southwestern Historical QuarterW, XX.III, 186. The following correction should be made: for "Also recd the sum of Forty two dollars in cash for freight on Twenty three Bbls flour-I Tierce Rice and 3 sacks corn" read, ". . Twenty three Bbls flour 1 Bbl Bread- 1 Tierce Rice

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