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No. 1572 1839 Dec. 17, F. DAWSON, BALTIMORE, [MARYLAND], TO :M. B. LAMAR, [AUSTIN, TEXAS JCS His Excellency Baltimore 17th December 1839 Mirabeau B. Lamar President of the Republic of Texas Sir I beg to call your attention to the fact that the interest due me on two bonds marked 1 and 2 of the Republic of Texas each for two hundred and eighty thousand Dollars was payable on the 1st instant in London-at the agency there of the United States Bank of Penn- sylvania and that no provision for the payment of the same- was made at the said Bank or its agency in London. This omission I have been given to understand has arisen entirely from an expectation on the part of the Government of Texas that the loan commissioners would have been enabled to effect in London some arrangement to prevent this disappointment. In preference to send- ing the Bonds to London to demand payment there of the interest while there are no fp.nds to meet such payment and which would dis- credit the Government, I have (as he will have informed your Excel- lency) taken the draft of Genl Dunlap the Texan minister at 60 days from the 12th December or sooner if advised, on the Bank of Orleans, for the interest due me in the 1st December 64508-$-not doubting but that so soon as you learn the fact you will lose no time in giving such directions as shall evince your anxiety that the Republic shall be prompt and faithful in fulfilling her engagements. Genl Dunlap will have informed your Excellency of the readiness & desire of the United States Bank at Philada to aid him in discharging this interest the moment it fell due and of the circumstances that pre- vented the arrangement-
I have the honor to remain Sir your most obedient servant Fred Dawson.
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Fred Dawson Dec. 17. '39.
Nos. 1573 and 1574 1839' Dec. 18, T. W. \VARD, rAURTIN, TEXAS], TOM. B. LAMAR, [AUSTIN, TEXASJ 110 House of Representatives Deer 18/39 To His Excellency the President ) Mirabeau. B. Lamar ) Sir I have the honor to submit for your r.on- sideration the following Resolution passed by the House. Viz- Resolved that his Excellency the President be requested to inform the House, whether or not, he ordered the Secretary of the 'l'reasury im-
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