have commanded General Jose Urrea to remain in Leona Vicario, where he is to reconnoiter, as he lately informed me. This will serve for your guidance. All companies of the garrison of Laredo may remain there under the command of their officers to observe any movement of the enemy to which end your Excellency will leave instructions. For God and Liberty. General Headquarters of San Luis Potosi. December 28, 1835. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Most Excellent Senor Vicente Filisola, Second in Command of the Army of Operations. (1640] [SMITH lo HOUSTON et al] In Lhe Name of the People of Texas Sovereign and free- To Whom these presents shall come, Be it known. That I, Henry Smith, Governor of Texas; by virtue of Lhe authority vested in me as Governor aforesaid, do hereby commission John Forbes, Sam Houston and John Cameron Esqrs as Commissioners on the part of the Govenment of Texas, in conformity with the Declaration of thechosen delegates of all Texas in Convention assembled in the month of November last, setting forth the external bounds within which certain Indians therein named are to be settled. And in conformity with an Ordinance and Decree passed by the Legislative Council of Texas under date of the 22 inst. authorizing the appointment of the said Houson, Forbes and Cameron for the purposes aforesaid to treat with the Indian Tribes in conformity with the superior declaration of the Convention, and pursuant to and in conformity with the said Ordinance and decree as above designated, and to be governed by the accompanying instructions. All acts performed by the said Commissioners on the part, and in the name of the People of Texas, within the purview and by virtue of this authority shall be valid and ultimately ratified by this Government, in good faith, when finally ratifiedor sanctioned by this Government. . . In testimony of which I Henry Smith, Governor as
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