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[i\IUSQUIZ to DIMITT J I Ramon Musquiz, Bexar, Lo Philip Di mill, May 25, 1835, about al'livities of the colonists.]
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[UGARTECHEA to BARRAGAN]
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l Domingo de Ugartechea, Bexar, to Manuel Barragan, Rio Grande, ~lay 25, I835, discussing plans for attacking the forces of the governor and the militia coming lo his assilance from San Felipe. J
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[COS to COMi\'IANDANTJ
Your officios of the 2nd and 4th of this month are before me and their contents have filled me with sufficient grief for I see lo what an extreme the impudence of some strangers may carry them, for they appear lo have persuaded themselves that the parts of the Republican appertain exclusively for the purpose of carrying a criminal and clandestine commerce. The original offices I have forwarded to Government with communications urging the necessity when there now is for other measures to cause obedience to the law by those inhabitants I have no doubt that with the brevity which these circumstances require they will provide for these nece:;sities; In the meantime I have disposed that the Ballallion of \loralos shall pass from Victoria to this port where they shall embark for Copeno and thence they will March wherever it may become necessary. You will opperate in every case with extreme prudence, but if hy any fatality the public order should he overturned, you arc to proc:eed wilhou l any contemplation against whomso1wer may occasion it, without
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