necessary to recover the inshurance for the goods lost in the Empress. if you did not See Capt Austin while in New orleans will you be good enough to send me such a Certificate as will do I thought my self that the Certificate you made on the back of the Bill of Lading was sufitient and think so still as all the goods which were not received was totally lost My opinion coincides with Capt Austin that there has been no exertion used to recover by the Messrs Lastrape & Desmere If there is any news from the army let me hear it. In our runaway Scrape all the papers relating to the goods on the Empress were misslaid or I would have sent them up to you J.F.R. [2579) [AUSTIN, ARCHER, AND WHARTON AGREEMENT] We the commissioners of Texas hereby authorize each other to negotiate all or a part of the government bonds at 10 per cent Interest. In the present exigency of Texas we are satisfied that money must be had immedialely if we have to pay as high a rate of Interest as our instructions authorize us to give which is ten per cent. Wm. 1-1. Wharton B. T. Archer [Endorsed:] S. F. Austin authority to effect a loan from Wharton and Archer 1836. [2580] [BURNET PROCLAMATION] [PROCLAMATION] [April 5, 1836] Peach Point 27th June 1836 Your friend James F. Perry Washington City April 5th 1836 The Government believes one of its first obligations under existing circumstances, to inform its citizens of the true state of things respecting the enemy, its phisical and moral force, and the probability of the results of the invasion, also of the forces and resources of the Govt. and Republic of Texas. 1st Gen Santa Anna invaded our territory with considerable forces whose numbers amounting according to prudent calculations to 6000 men
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