Resolved, 2nd That we recommend a consultation chosen
by the people.
Resolved, 3rd That we recommend each Jurisdiction Lo elect five members to meet in San Felipe on the 15th of October next. Resolved, 4th Thal a committee of vigilance and safety for the Jurisdiction of Austin, be appointed to order and superintend the election for delegates of this Jurisdiction, and to correspond with the committees of the other Jurisdictions. Resolved, 5th That the Ayunlamiento of Austin be requested to correspond with those parts of Texas which may have addressed it on the subject of a consultation of Texas. In pursuance of the 4th resolutio11 the meeting then proceeded to the election of members of Lhe committee of Vigilance and Safety. Whereupon Capt. Wiley Martin, Colonel \\'illiam Pettus, Gail Borden, Jr., John H. :\1oney, Randal Jones and Stephl'n F. Austin were unanimously elected. Resolved, that the proceedings of this meeting Le sent lo the press at Brazoria. for publication, and lo the other Jurisdictions of Texas. On motion. W. B. Travis, Esq. it was Resolved, That the thanks of this meeting be voled to the Chairman and Secretary. And then the meeting adjourned. S. F. Austin, Chairman. Patrick C. Jack. Sect. Commillee Room, San Felipe, Sept. 13th. 1835. The undersigned, a Commillee of correspondence and vigilance, appointed by a very large and general Meeting of the citizens of the Jurisdiction of Austin, convened at this place on the 12th ins., have the honor to transmit to you, in pursuance of the duties assigned them, a copy of the resolutions adopted by said meeting, in order that you will lay before the people of that section of the country, and solicit their co-operation. This Committee deem it to be entirely unnecessary, lo enter into a long statement of facts, lo shew why a general consultation of all Texas is indispensible, for the reason that Lhc prc:,-1:11t 1-ri,-i;.: is :-o 1'.vicfrnt and alarming, Lhal no one appears lo doulil it.
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