"IL is not insisted they they were boun<l" What was necessary to bind them'? Col. Gray and myself had signed it, an<l hound ourselves, and the balance of the contractors, were to be bound when they accepted and signed the contract. Do they accept it or reject? Let us examine their resolutions on the subject. They say "after attending to my explanation of the nalure of the contract, and wishing to take the sense of the meeting to complete the contract by the signatures of the lenders- "Resolved, that in the opinion of this meeting from the explanation given and a view of all Lhc circumstances, the conduct of the Executive government of Texas in making the said compromise evinces a laudable determination to fulfill as far as practicable, the engagements of their agents lo do Justice to those who came forward lo their aid in time of need, trusting solely to their national intcgrity and honor, and thereby to render the pledged faith, and to preserve the credit of the Republic and that it demands and receives from us a continuance of the confidence and good will towards Texas with which we entered into the original contract and made the loans aforesaid" After closing this resolution all considered the contract as ratified-It is clearly an acceptance of the contract, but when the form of Scrip, was presented for consideration, they object to it, because it contained a restriction not in the compromise and which they considered therefore not in compliance with it, the rejection was not of the compromise but of the Scrip, and they ventured to frame a form which in their opinion embraced the terms of the compromise. But you in turn say it does not, as bcfore stated it is not now my purpose to argue the question which is right on thal head, because there is a mode of ending that difficulty more easily. 1f the parties cannot agree on the forms of script, embracing all the advantages of the contract and carrying all its guards and conditions, Let the Scrip, simply give the right to the holder to six hundred and forty acres of land out of the public domain of Texas, according to the provisions of compromise of 1st Apl. 1836 betwen R. Triplett & W. F. Gray of the one part and Lhe Government of Texas of the other. Here the inconvenience will exist of a constant reference to the compromise, but one which must be submitted to where the parties cannot agree upon another form. I presume that your Government could not for one moment hesitate to admit that the holders of the compromise if entitled to its provisions, arc entitled to Scrip embracing the exact stipulations thereof, such a form would do it, and end dispute on that head, the only possible question then which can arise is, have the lenders secured to
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