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Will you be so very kind as to excuse the liberty I
have taken and believe me your most obedient servant
Frederick Leclerc [rubric] D. M. P. chief physician at the hospital at Tours.
Chardonnet Street no 9 Tours (Indre et Loire) [Addressed] Republic of Texas Mirabeau Lamar
[Endorsed] Frederick Leclerc. Tours, Fr. Relative to publishing a work on Texas.
president of the Republic. houston.
No. 1606
[!839?], JAMES ARMSTRONG, AUSTIN, [TEXAS] Speech in the House of Representatives opposing Houston's bill to incorporate the Neches and Angelina Navigation Company and abusing Houston. A. Df. 8 p.
No. 1607 [1839 ?], CALEB QUIN, [BRAZORIA? TEXAS]
Petition to M:[irabeau] B[uonaparte] Lamar, [Houston_? Texas], praying for the commutation of his sentence of imprisonment for man- slaughter to service in the Army. L. S. (mark). 3 p. (including 2 p. of appended signatures of indorsement). No. 1608 [1839], PROPOSAL FOR CREATION OF BOARD OF INTERNAL IM:PROVEM:ENTS 76 Although new, our Country contains a population particularly active and enterprising, because every one has come to Texas with the hope of promptly acquiring wealth. Although one of the most favored portions of the Globe, yet at present every thing bears the stamp of the disorder of nature abandoned to herself for ages past, and many obstacles arise to oppose and paralize the energy of its inhabitants. Our Rivers are barred at their mouth, and obstructed in their course. Our immense prairies, so favorable to agriculture, are trav- ersed by roads impracticable during the greater part of the year. Throughout the whole extent of our vast territory we feel the want of some means of transportation and of better directed roads; but it is indispensable that art should develope and reap the advantages of the inexhaustible resources of our country. And to attain this end, why not follow the example of almost every State in the Union, which has established a Bureau or Board of internal im[pr]ovements and
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