Mexican Gov. al the Natchez River-thereby culling off nearly one half of the population of Texas. I shou'd think it advisable for you & your counsel to send an immediate protest to this Gov.-The information is generally believed here. If true, It shews the contemtable diplomicy of the Mexicans and the averise of the Americans, one is as contemable as the other is ignorant Please accept my assurence of Friendship &c- W. H. Bynum [1500] [ERRAZU to SANTA ANNA]
Ministry of Finance First Section
Proposals made by the undersigned to His Excellency, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, President, to relieve the needs of the Army of Operations under his command: 1st I will deliver in cash . .............. 200,000 pesos Likewise in printed bonds ............. 200,000 pesos 400,000 pesos 2nd. As payment for this amount there shall be delivered
to me:
First. The total proceeds from the forced loans of the departments of San Luis, Zacatecas, Guanajuato and Guadalajara. Second. The war subsidy of the four said departments. Third. This loan shall be liquidated four months from date, the certificates of the commissaries of the four departments showing the amounts received, and the balance still due to be considered as cash, allowing me an equal amount on the printed bonds. The total amount due me shall be made up by warrants on the maritime customs houses of Tampico, Veracruz and Matamoros, to be taken as specie and in full payment of all kinds of duties without requiring any cash. The bonds of which I speak in the first proposal will be delivered lo the sub-commissary in this city before the expiration of the said four months. Fourth. Of the one hundred and forty-seven thousand pesos which I am presenting in sworn warrants issued arbitrarily by the officials of the customs house of l\latamoros before the
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