(1996 l [Sl\UTH to JACKSON]
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Executive Department of Texas.
To Thomas R. Jackson, Esq. to execute.
You are hereby authorized and required to proceed to the Council Hall, or elsewhere, and demand of J. W. Robinson, former president of the Council, and the members, the following docu- ments, viz.: An ordinance and decree requiring me to commission McKinney & Williams to contract a loan for one hundred thousand dollars, on which bill a commission has issued, and by that body demanded and taken from my secretary before it was recorded in my office. Also two commissions certified in that bill to have been returned, one to McKinney & Williams made out by the previous Council of which R. R. Royall was president. And also one other commission made out by me to Thomas F. McKinney, both for the same amount of one hundred thousand dollars. These are Ex- ecutive papers and belong to my office, you will also demand and bring me the terms on which the armed vessel Invincible has been tendered and accepted by the Government. You will further noti- fy them that if these things are not promptly complied with and they immediately desist from their injurious and disorganizing op- erations that I will immediately order their arrest and transmission to the post of Bexar to be tried by martial law. You will immediately make to me your report. Given from under my hand at office, this 2d February, 1836.
Henry Smith, Governor.
(1997] [WYATT to SMITH]
Refugio Mission 2 February 1836
Sir
Under a furlow and commission from General Houston I shall proceed to morrow lo the U. Stales for the purpose of raising another Vol. Corps for the service of Texas, & shall endeavor to report, them by the last of March.
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