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Executive Department Velasco 3 Sept. 1836
To Thomas Toby Esqr. Texas Agent, New Orleans Sir
It is strongly impressed on my mind that I wrote you some time ago authorizing you to extend the sales of script to two hundred thousand acres over and above the original amount to wit 500,000. The files do not contain a copy of my letter and I now address you a similar authority, provided no such letter was received. You are therefore authorized and requested to extend your sales of script for land for this Government to the aggregate amount of one million of acres, that is five hundred thousand acres in addition to the amount first authorized. The wants of the Army require your utmost exertions in our behalf and I doubt not they will be cheerfully rendered.
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Your Obt Sevl David G Burnet
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Philadelphia, September 3, 1836. The undersigned was so immediately convinced of the importance of the document to which the Secretary of State refers in his nott of the 31st of August, that he had already, on the 19th of that month, transmitted a copy of it to his Government. By this means, its contents will soon be known in Mexico, and the Government of the undersigned may then be enabled to estimate fully the purity of the international doctrine there laid down by the President of the United States, and the justice with which he applies this doctrine in the present emergency. Even without this [exposition of international doctrine,] the mere fact of the President's having disapproved the requisition of General Gaines would of itself suffice, in the opinion of the undersigned, lo cause its announcements to be received with peculiar satisfaction in Mexico, as the assembling of so many American troops on the very
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