[3181] [GARZA to FILJSOLAI
Office of the commissary-general of the department of Tamaulipas-Excellent Sir:-With Juan Cuevas, lieutenant-colonel of permanent cavalry, I forward lo the order of your Excellency, fifty-six thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight dollars two rials three grains, for the assistance of those meritorious troops. I would like that said remittance were of a larger amount, but the great scarcity which we yet suffer, does not permit my particular desires, on this occasion, lo be satisfied. Of the one hundred and seventy-three thousand eight hundred and ten dollars two rials, which were deposited in this office, for the army of operations, I have forwarded thirty thousand to the order of his Excellency, the president general; and the commandant general has disposed of some amounts here, and lo-day there is not enough to complete the fifty-five thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars seven rials and five grains, which is required by general Joseph Urrea, who arrived yesterday.-All of which I inform your Excellency of, and entreat him to receive the protestations of my constant adherance to his person.-God and Liberty.-Matamoros, 28th !\lay, 1836.-Pedro J. de la Garza.-To his Excellency general Vicente Filisola. [3182] LGRAYSON lo BURNET, ET AL] [P. W. Grayson, Velasco, to the President and Cabinet of the Republic of Texas, Velasco, May 28, 1836, accepting a commission to go to Washington, D.C., on behalf of Texas, and thanking the President and Cabinet for their kindnesses during the revolution.]
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