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jVE.NAI3JDES to NAVARRO]
I Ysidro Venabidcs, Victoria, lo Angel Navarro, Bexar, February 18, 1835, reporting lhal Indian depredations arc rendering lifc intolerable, and asking for relief.)
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[RUIZ to ALCALDE]
The Supreme Government of the State, satisfied with the intention of the Cherokee Coushatta and other Jndians will not permit them lo be disturbed in the lands which they now occupy until the Gen) Supreme Government shall determine upon the matter, and the Chiefs of the Cherokee nation havcing been made known to me, that five or six families have lately introduced themselves, among which there is one of the mane of Cook and the ,,idow of--- and have established themselves within the pasture lands of the said Cherokee and are doing them much injury killing and wounding their cattle and of the deer, and it being absolutely necessary to maintain peace with those Inclians, that you proceed wilhour loss of time to expel the said families from the above mentioned lands for which purpose you will order the Sheriff to be under the direction of Col. Bowles to inform these families of which he, Col. Bowles has complained, that they will immediately leave and remove themselves from the said lands, and that you will take care, lhal hereafter, that no body shall be suffered to Establish themselves within the Range on the pastures of the said Indians until the Supreme Gen. Government shall have determined upon
what lands they shall be established. [To the Alcalde of Nacogdoches l
20th Febry 1835 Ruiz
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