PAPERS OF MIR.ABE.AU BuoN.AP.ARTE L.AJ.£.AR 257 A public meeting was held at Sanphilippi 33 to protest against the payment of the 12½ cts fee. Austin made a speech, & satisfied the people by abandoing [sic] t_he exaction, & offering to refund what he had recd in this way; but few called for it- What he had agreed to give to Bastrop & Saucedo, he had to raise by slow degrees- the debt lay heavily upon him for years-The reason of his conduct he could not explain- The names of the various Govrs since 1824 can be found in the Laws 34 of Coahulia [Coahuila] & Texas- 1829-Guerrero was endued with extraordinary powers by Congress when Mexico was invadd [sic] by Spain-Gurrero, who was half negro himself, passed a Decree, ordering the negroes in Texas to be sat [set 1 free. The governor, to whom the decree had been forwarded, was given to Ramon Musquiz Political Chief of the Department of Bexar, whose duty it was to publish & promulgate it to the people; but instead of doing this, he suppressed the Decree, until he could remonstrate with the Governmt against the policy of the measure.-Gurrera on receiving the arguments & expositions of Musquiz, revoked the decree. Musquiz, it is to be regretted, took sides against Texas in the Revolution-Bus- tamente's administratn was distinguished for its hostility to the Amer- icans-1\Iusquiz, however, always wrote to the Govt so favorably of the peaceable disposition of the people, as .to have a salutory effect upon the measures of the Govt-he is now very poor on the Riogrande- During the Anahuac scrape, he came to the place of disturbance him- self and arrested Bradburn in his course; he made a favorable report to the Govt- [Endorsed] No. 1640 [183-?, MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR, HOUSTON? TEXAS] Table of distances between Natchitoches and other points in Texas and 1\Iexico; the beginning of the repeopling of Nacogdoches, 1822-3. A. Df. 1 p. Information derived from Doctor Miller- "San Felipe. "In Gammel, H. P. N., lAHOS of Texas, I, 113-422. A list of the governors of Coahuila and Texas from 1824 to 1835 is published in Wooten, D. G., History of Texas, p. 153.
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