pleased to accept [Lorn] of the most high and unquestioned consi cl era Lion J. B. l\liller Austin 2 July 1835 I Endorsed: I Original of the communication lo General Cos - which was translated by Mr. Gritton - forwarded July 20 1835 by way of San Antonio to Col Urgalccha.
[3091 [MILLER to i\lONEY]
Chieftancy or the Department of Brazos
The public safety requires that some measure should immediately be taken to maintain a friendly relation with the northern Indians within Texas, especially when our frontier is now suffering by the incursions of wandering tribes of the Colorado & Brazos. The Ayuntamiento being now destitute of municipal funds, and consequently unable to send a m<~ssengcr among them. You will therefore apply two hundred dollars of the money of the State in your hands lo carry into <~ffect the aforesaid object.
San FdipP- de Austin 2nd July 1835 J.B. l\liller
To J. 1-1. Money
Recd. payment J. 8. Miller
(3101 [CITIZENS to MILLER]
[Jno. P. Coles, James Whiteside, James G. Swisher, Jared Gross, Horatio Chrisman, and others, Jurisdiction of Austin, lo James B. Miller, July 2, 1835, reiterating their desire to have a separate Jurisdiction of Washington created.]
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