y en el de que si legalmcnlc no se amplia aquel periodo, los exlrangcros y colonos continuaram hacie11do sus introducciones clandeslinas ·y solo las tropas, fielcs observadoras de las !eyes careceran de viveres y de Loda clase de recursos quc solo puede proporcionarselos por la concesion quc pide el Sor. Comandante General referido.= Sirvase V.E. ver eslc asunto con la preferencia q~1c produce y comunicarme la resolucion que recayere. Dios y L1berlad Mexico Agosto 22 de 1835.= Tomei= E. S. Serio. de Hacienda. [To l\'lartin Perfecto de Cos]
[541] [BARRETI lo MINA l
August 23 1836
To the Citizens of Mina
When at the caU of the Political Chief, by and with the advice of his counsel, then in session, I submitted lo undertake a hazardous Mission in behalf of my adopted Country. I did not give a full consent until I had consullecl your "Committee of Safety" and obtained their approbation.... I wish now to give you a brief account of the occurrences connected with my public duties since the letters of Mr. Gritten and myself by Messrs. Drown and Turner. The United Stales Government [of Mexico] have through their officers at Matamoras and this place, fully recognized the objects of the Mission, and the public character of your agents. Augt. 25 1835. I have just heard from Mr. Gritten by express, he is at Goliad, where he expected to have mel me, on this day, several late communications from the supreme Government, through Genl Cos, demanding certain persons, in Texas, especially l\1r. Zavalla, of Mexico, whose surrender, or positive evidence, of his not being in Texas, is made a "sine que non" to all further negotiations, and I regret to say, that the nexl upon the lisl demanded is W. B. Travis Esq, the next in order are Robt l\'l WiUiamson and l\losely Baker Esqr together with the individuals concerned in "abusing" the Government Messengers, and "Violating" their dispatches the next in order demanded, is S M Williams Esq. and Judge Johnson, All the North Americans above named, were first demanded by the Cornell here in a letter sent here from "San Felipe", signed by
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