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PAPERS OF MIR.ABE.AU BUON.AP.ARTE LAM.AR
No. 1504 1839 Oct. 24, L. P. COOKE, AUSTIN, [TEXAS], TO M. EVANS, [AUSTIN, TEXASJ 33 Navy Department Austin October 24th 1839. Sir. Your communication 34 of this date is received, and I have to reply, by informing you, that there is yet in Mr T M Taylor's hands $1500, say fifteen hundred dollars, of the money intrusted to him, unaccounted for, which I presume you will charge to his account; that the $10,000 say ten thousand dollars, with which I am charged, has been forwarded to Mr John G Tod at Baltimore, for shipping men, and other contin- gent purposes, that $150, say one hundred and fifty dollars, of the draft drawn by Mr Humphreys, has been retained by me, for pur- poses for which I will account to your Department in due course of time. To Musgrove Evans Esq 2nd Auditor Present I am Sir Respectfully Your Obot Servt
Louis P. Oooke ,Secty Navy
No. 1505
1839 Oct. 25, E. S. C. ROBERTSON, AUSTIN, [TEXAS], TO l\L B. LAMAR, [AUSTIN, TEXAS] 35 Post Office Depart. Austin Oct. 25 1839 To His Excellency Mirabeau B. Lamar, President of the Republic of Texas. Sir; In connexion with my repor.t 30 I woul [d] respectfully, inform your Excellency, that it is of the utmost impor- tance to the Government, that there be a Mail Route established be- tween this City, and Houston. And in Consequence of no Act of Congress, authorising the Establishment of such a route, the people and more especially the different Departments of Government [suffer] a greate inconvenience. If this should mee[t] your Excellencie's ap- probation, I would fur.ther recommend, that it be made an Express Mail, and to be Carried twice a week. 1\Iy proposals would have been published ere this, but had no authority to do so, untill after Major Barrs death
I have the honor to be Your Obt Servt
E. S. 0. Robertson Acting P. M. Genrl.
"L. S.
"An unsigned copy of this communication in Evans' hand is in the Texas archives, "Comptroller's Letters." "'A. L. S. "See n'ote 00 to no. 1529.
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