PAPERS OF l\IrnABEAU BuoN.A.P.A.RTE LAMAR 159 cline, the duties of my office as Quarter l\Iaster Genl, being sufficient to occupy all my time I am Very Respectfully Yr Obt Svt. (Signed) Wm G Cooke [Endorsed] Wm G. Cooke resignation as Signer of Presidents name to Promissory Notes Nov. 11. '39 No. 1529 1839 Nov. 12, M. B. LAMAR, AUSTIN, [TEXAS]. SECOND AN- NUAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS 68 General Lamar's
Second Annual ~Iessage to Congress. Communicated November 12th 1839.
Executive Department Austin November 12th 1839.
Fellow Citizens of the Senate
and House of Representatives.
I have great pleasure in meeting- the Representatives of the people for the first time assembled at the permanent Seat of Government. The Act 69 of the last Congress, direct- ing the removal of the Public Archives from the City of Houston, was, an expression of legislative will, too decisive to permit me to falter- for a single moment in carrying it out. Arrangements were accord- ingly made, immediately after the adjournment, for the survey of the city of Austin and the erection of the necessary offices and public build- ings, to be commenced so soon as the Commissioners chosen to select: the site, should have made their report. The time allowed for the work was so exceedingly limited as to render its accomplishment ap- parently impracticable; yet I am happy in having it in my power to- announce to you, that the Agent appointed to superintend the under- taking, did succeed, by extra-ordinary energy, in preparing such accom- modations as have enabled the officers of Governt. to resume their- duties at the New City on the first of October as directed by law, with very little inconvenience to themselves, and no derangement of the public business beyond its temporary suspension. I congratulate you, gentlemen, and the country in general, that a question which has so deeply excited our National Legislature, has thus been put to rest; and I sincerely hope that no ,similar subject will arise in future to abstract your attention from the harmonious con- sideration of such matters of general and local policy as may be re- garded essential to the prosperity of the nation. That the selection of ..D. S. In no. 361, p. 139. The original is in the Texas archives, House Journal, 4th Congress, Secretary of State Department. '"Act of Jan. 23, 1839. Printed in Gammel, H. P. N., Laws of Texas, II, 90.
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