You will please observe that the numbers in the margin refer to vouchers to be found on the files sent. That the Cash, & acceptance account, in the numbers, refer to the account & vouchers of the purchasing agents, account, it being unnecessary to multiply vouchers by presenting them for both accounts. The Incidental expense a/c is for small sums expended for drayagc & Labour which it was unnecessary to charge minutely. The numbers marked over "P. Agent'' in the Cash account refer Lo the Vouchers in the Purchasing agents account. The numbers in the acceptance account of the Genl agent, refer to the vouchers as given in the purchasing agents account. A duplicate of all the accounts and ' vouchers will be forwarded by the next vessel-The File of receipts for articles delivered on account of the Government, will be· explained by referenee to the margin of the purchasing agents account. After sending these accounts in duplicate the agency still retain Vouchers for all sums paid. Trusting the accounts may prove satisfactory &c 1 have the honour to be &c Yours Respectfully Samuel Ellis Secy. & auditor of accounts [3302] [GAINES to CANNON) Head quarters, western department, camp Sabine, June 6, 1836. Dear Sir: I lake much pleasure in tendering your excel- lency my grateful acknowledgments for the prompt and efficient measures which you have taken to comply with my request of the 8th of April, to furnish for the protection of this frontier, a brigade of volunteers. The perusal of your letter of the 28th April, with your proclamation, together with the spirited addrei;;s of your talented and patriotic staff, could not but awake in my mind many delightful recollections of the past 46 years of my life, in which I have been a Tennesseean-counting from her infancy as a territory, to her present greatness as a state-though not yet half grown- during which Lime she has been unsurpassed by any of her sisters, spirited and patriotic as they are, in her promptitude and devotion lo her own and the national defence- recollections which will never cease lo make my heart glad, Lill il ceases to vibrate, that my lot was cast when a small boy upon the territory which now forms
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