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[1600] [SMITH lo COUNCIL]
Executive Department of Texas.
To the President and members of the General Council. Gentlemen:-
! herewith transmit lo you vanous documents received
from the sommancler at Bexar.
You will see various bills which they think necessary to be filled out, all of which you will compare and consider. The bills already forwarded to the United States to be filled by special agents, you will take into consideration, and see if any thing additional should be ordered. Of the article of bread stuff, they seem to be very scarce, and from verbal information, very little is on the way from Gonzales. What orders have been sent to commissaries, for the forwarding of supplies from the West, by way of Labacca, I am not advised, but hope that the necessary means will be used to keep them supplied, with whatever the garrison may need. You will also see an account in favor of Mr. Arnold, of which you will make the proper disposition. The documents relating to the creation of officers in the camp, requiring commissions, &c. &c., I have passed over to General Houston, the commander-in-chief, with a request that he proceed to order the proper officers to that point to tak~ command, and reduce the previous disorganization to system. I also transmit to you, documents this moment received from Capt. Caldwell of Gonzales, who has been engaged in forwarding supplies lo the army. I have also received verbal information, that Capt. Caldwell has unfortunately received a wound which will probably retard the prosecution of his duties for the present. By verbal request of officers, who have been in command al Bexar, I am informed that a Mr. Smith, a deaf man, well known lo the army for his vigilence and meritorious acts, has been severely wounded in storming Bexar, and that his family are daily expected in this place, with an expectation that the Council would exercise such guardianship over them as their situation may require. Their head remains in
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