Amount due the army, exclusive of the amount audited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412,000 Amount of civil and contingent expenses, exclusive of amount audited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118,720 $1,250,000 Whole amount to this dale, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. As this estimate is made so as lo comprehend a period in advance, and supplies are still coming in from neighboring friends, the presumption is, that the public debt will not be increased for six months except in those particulars which arise from the establishment of the several branches of a complete Government, under a new constitution. The prospective resources for the payment of the public debt, and the future support of the Government, are, the public domain, imposts and tonnage duties, and moneys due from settlers on lands heretofore granted under the colonization laws of Coahuila and Texas. The public domain will be the most available and fruitful source of means to the State. The "head rights" yet due to settlers, together with all other claims for land, are estimated al fifty.millions of acres; and the quantity which will remain, after all deductions for costs of the war and soldiers' grants, is one hundred millions of acres. The present army is about 2,200 strong, not including the settlers or farmers, who can be drawn upon any emergency, so as to augment the number to at least 5,000 efficient men; and the supplies for the winter campaign are now in the country, and at the command of the Government. Besides this, emigrants are coming in weekly, who enrol themselves first in the military service; so that the army, in fact, is never diminished by the lapse of terms of enlistment. The answer, therefore, to the inquiry as to the present condition of Texas, and her future means, is, that she owes one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; that her grants in land lo citizens and others for "head rights" and military services, are about fifty millions of acres; and that she will have one hundred millions of acres left, after all deductions, to meet the expenses of the war; that she has a standing army of 2,200, which will be increased to 4,000 before the close of the year, besides a reserve of 3,000 yeomen soldiers al home; and that her citizens
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