We desire that no audited accounts shall, in future, be received in payment, except such as have been or may be ordered by the Government; or such as are created, in New Orleans or other foreign cities, for supplies &c. . Having confidence in your zeal, ability and integrity, en- tirely unshaken, and unimpaired, I have the honor to be Very Respectfully Your Obt Servant Wm. H. Jack
Secy. of State
[3782) [PERRY to BURNET]
New Orleans 23rd July 1836
To His Excellency David G. Burnet Sir
I hold the acceptances of the old Agent, William Bryan, for about two thousand dollars some of which, are some time due & the residue will he due in a few days. The present agent wd pay them if you will be so good as to transmit to me an order from either yourself or the Secty of the Treasury or Messrs Thos Toby & Br to pay .at sight the acceptances above alluded to. I feel assured that your Excellency & the council, will grant my implied right knowing as you undoubtedly do, that there are more who have materially identified themselves wilh the great & good cause of your interesting country, who are more or less injured by it; indeed most of the Banks will not grant a single facility to the friends of Texas, add to this the fact that the sum which I will receive of the present Agents will be immediately applied to aid the cause of Liberty beyond the Sabine. If the scrip which the agents expected per the Julius Caesar had arrived there would have been a considerable amt. of funds in their hands now. The scrip should he made smaller-say half & quarter sections, and thereby he within the means of every drayman labourer, & hodman in the country; these men who may now be enemies to your country would, if they had a small sum invested in its soil, become friends; for "Where my treasure is, there is my heart also" this is, as near as I can recollect, the language of the Scripture. There is another fact that deserves the attention of the government: Viz. There ought to be a Rendezvous placed some
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