[4119) [HOUSTON to SMITHJ
Nacogdoches Sep 1st 1836
Col. J. Smith Sir,
So fast aU volunteers under the late requisition shall arrive, you are hereby ordered to organise the same and form them into Companies of Fifty-six or more requiring from them a muster roll. Also any Companies who may arrive already Organised, are hereby required lo furnish you with a muster roll of the same.
Yr Obt Servl Sam Houston Com in Chief
A True Copy Nath Amory Secy
r41201 [HOUSTON ORDER]
Nacogdoches, Texas, 1st Sept. 1836-
Order
Col P. A. Sublette, Capt. Burdett, & Col Jacob Garrett, will proceed to enroU the troops from the County of San Augustine, and organize them by the election of one Captain, one first, and one Second Lieutenant and report the same to the Com-in Chief Sam Houston Com-in Chief
[412'1) [PRICE to MERCADO]
U.S. District Attorney's Office, New York, September 1, 1836- Sir: I had, this afternoon, the honor of receive your letter of this elate, advising me of the arrival, at the porl of New York, of a vessel called the Texan schooner Brutus, and hasten lo apprize you of my earnest wish to render every aid in my power to prevent a violation of the laws of the United tales, or an infringement of their treaty with the republic of l\'lexico. In this wish I am not only prompted by a sense of duty, but by the expressed determination of the Executive of this Government lo
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