Art. 3. The Government will fulfil the objects of the first article, without regard to any stipulation which the President may make, or have made, while a prisoner, such stipulations being null, void, and of no effect. Art. 4. The Government is authorized to ask from the departments one-fourth of the recruits which were lo be furnished by the old States according to the law of August 24, 1824. Art. 5. The Government is in like manner authorized to establish recruitiug stations at such points as it may judge proper, making the necessary appropriations lo that effect, and subtracting from the contingent of each department the recmits raised in its territory. Art. 6. The capital of the republic, and the townships within the limits of its federal district, will furnish three hundred recruits, chosen by lot, according to the regulation of 1767, so far as it has not been repealed. The persons thus chosen may be exempted from personal service, by presenting a proper substitute, or by paying fifty dollars to the recruiting fund, in either of which cases they will receive their discharge as if they had served. Antonio Montoya, Presi<lcn~. Jose R. Ma:o and Rafad de Montalvo, secretaries.' I therefore order it to be printed, published, distributed, and carried into effect duly. Palace of the National Government in Mexico, May 20, 1836. Jose Justo Corro. A. D. Jose Maria Tornel." And I communicate it to you, that you may be informed of it, and act accordingly. God and liberty. Mexico, May 20, 1836. Tomei [3118) [ZAVALA and GRAYSON to PRESIDENT and COUNCIL] Executive Department May 20th 1836 Lorenzo <le Zavala & P. W. Grayson who have been appointed a committee, to report upon the application of Messrs. McKinney & Williams, this day presented Lo the Presidt & Cabinet, for the appointment of Thomas Toby of N. Orleans, and Agent for the Government of Texas, to dispose of Scrip, conveying a right to locate & procure titles for public lands, within the domain of the
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