made him give bond with two approved Security for ten thousand dollars-his bond being now deposited in the office of the primary Judge of Nacogdoches- I I remain Gentlemen Your Most obl Scvl Peter J Menard [1303) [NACOGDOCHES COMMITTEE to COUNCIL)
Committee Room Nacogdoches Novr. 26, 1835
To the Honnorable Council of Texas, San Felipe de Austin
The Committee of Vigilence and Safely of the Municipality of Nacogdoches would respectfully suggest to the Council of Texas the propriety of revoking a resolution passed by the Council on the 27th day of October 1835 requiring the Commissioners granting titles to Lands, to Close their offices & suspend all mannn of land business untill the Convention should act on the Matter. This Committee deems it proper, that at this time, when such a large number of our Citizens have gone out in defence of the rights of our CountTy, that all Surveyors should cease their opperations, and that the vacant lands should remain as they are, untill those Patriotic Volunteers who have so nobly & willingly steped forward in defence of our sacred rights, shall again return and share an equal chance with all that have not had their lands surveyed. Consequently aU surveyors have been required to cease their operations, and the Commissioners have ceased to grant orders of survey. But why should Titles not be issued to Lands surveyed previous to the passage of that Resolution. It cannot act to the predjudice of any portion of the people of Texas, whilst a contrary must injure the Patriotic Volunteers in the field, those who have been no less active in forwarding the Cuase of the Country at home, and the public finances of the Country. Many of the Volunteers of this Municipality, left it as a strict injunction on their families and friends remaining behind to take their Titles out of the Office so soon as they should be completed, that their children might be subject to none of the unforunale disappointments so often experienced in the transactions of the pulilic affairs of the Country, hut have somthing tangable and in their possession as a reward for their privations, and a fulfillment of the promise of the laws of the Country, in case their fathers should never return, those families
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