understand some disagreement between those men and Mr. Stansberry. Be H1at as it may, I would lhat You would not attempt to vary the agreements of Soldiers who have received from the government, lhe means of coming lo the Country and who after they get here, are disposed to fly from their original contract, whether wrillen or verbal. I would not for my part, give three cents for three thousand three months men, but rather consider them a nuisance to the Service. I hope therefore thal you will abstain from making any arrangement with those men, lo change the terms of their original engagements.
in great haste Your obl Sv. David G. Burnet
(3162) [FILISOLA ET AL AGREEMENT]
Ratification of lhe Public Agreement by FlLlSOLA, in accordance with the Provision of the 8th Article Rivulet of Mugcrero On the 26th day of the month of May, of the current year, Benjamin F. Smith, colonel in the army of Texas, and Henry Teal, captain of the same, having presented themselves in the tenl of his excellency Vicente Filisola, general-in-chief of the Mexican army of operations, and delivered a paper, which was directed, through them, lo said General Filisola, by his excellency the president-general An lonio Lopez de Sanla Anna; and Colonel Smith, al the same time, making known that he came competently authorized (according to his credentials, which he exhibited for the purpose, signed by his general, Thomas J. Rusk), in order lo ratify in his name the fulfilment of lhe papers referred lo, which contain the treaty of armistice concluded between General Santa Anna and the government of Texas, on lhe 14th instant: in consequence, General Filisola, on receiving these documents, named, for their examination and explanation with the commissioners, Eugene Tolsa, general of the Mexican army, and Colonel Augustine Amat, who, after having fulfilled their commission in the lerms specified, informed his excellency; and he, after having heard them, agreed on his part religiously lo
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