(3164] [FILISOLA to COMANDANT]
-Ejercito de operaciones.- Tengo el honor y salisfaccion de acompanar a V S. la adjunta carla que entre otras comunicaciones de S. E. el general presidente recihi cl dia de ayer, y de suplicarle tenga la bonclad de acusarme el correspondiente recibo, siendo adjunta copia del articulo relativo a que S. E. se cont-rae, y pudicndo scrvirle de gobierno, que habiendo ya por motivos poderosos que me han asistido convenido en el con los comisionaclos, me han manifestado deseos de que sus prisioneros que se hayan en esa sean conclucidos al puerto de Velasco, desde donde el buque que los lleve traera en retorno igual numero de los nuestros, cambiados clase por clase.- Dios y libertad. Arroyo del Muguerero Mayo 26 de 1836 - Vicente Filisola - Sr. comandante general de los departamentos de Nuevo Leon y Tamaulipas. [3165) [TOLSA ET AL AGREEMENT] Rivulet of Mugerero, on the 26th day of the month of May, of the current year, Benjamin F. Smith, colonel in the army of Texas, Henry Teal, captain in the same, having presented themselves in the tent of his excellency, Vicente Filisola, general-in-chief of the Mexican army of operations; the said gentlemen delivering a paper which, through them, was directed to said general Filisola by his Excellency the president general, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna; and colonel Smith making known at the same time, that he came competently authorized, according to his credentials, which he exhibited for the purpose, signed by his general, Thomas J. Rusk, in order to ratify in his name the fulfilment of the papers referred to, which contain the treaty of armistice concluded between Santa Anna and the government of Texas on the 14th inst. 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 specified terms, informed his Excellency: and after having heard them, agreed on his part to religiously comply, as far as in the ten articles of which it consists;
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