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PAPERS OF 1\1.IR.ABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
when biased by contracted and sinister views. and that such judge- ment may be passed upon acts of its Kind as a free and independent people have a right to decide upon the deeds of their fellow servants. Resolved that we can conceive of no reason for the removal afore- said other than the fact that the acting Secretary of the Treasury was at the time an Alien and unacquainted perhaps with our Constitution and laws and with the general weal of the Country or through special favoritism to the place from its being called "Lamar" after the present President of this Republick as the place was never intended by Nature nor can it be made by art without the Expenditure of millions of dollars a town of any importance Resolved that we view with deep and fearful concern this step of the Executive as making use of a power not granted him by the Con- stitution or laws a power inimical to the best interest of the Country and subversion of the right and the freedom of this people Resolved that a Copy of this proceedings of this meeting be signed by the Chairman an Secretary and forwarded to the President and also a copy to the Editor of the Houston Telegraph and one to the Editor of Civilian Galveston for publication with a request that other papers may republish the same- s. Parson Griswold. Secy [Addressed] Free His Excellency l\I. B Lamar Houston Repb Texas
H. L. Kinney Prest. [Endorsed] Resolutions of the Citizens of Aransas, about Custom House &c June 1839
No. 1342
1839 June 1'7, W[ILLIAM:] A. HOWARD, BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, TO [MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE] LAMAR, [HOUS'rON, TEXAS] Application for appointment as commander-in-chief of the Texas Navy. A. L. S. 1 p. No. 1343 1839 June 17, W. ROBERTS, GALVESTON, TEXAS, TO 1\I. B. LAUAR, [GALVESTON, TEXAS] 41 Custom house Galveston 17th June 1839 Your Excellency Dear Sir The wreck of the Steamer Cuba being the first that has happened in our waters since I came into office has been the occasion of my examining particularly into the laws in force in the U. S. (having none of our own) in relation to the appointment & duties of Commis- sioners of Wrecks. Finding that in several of the States their Gov- ernors respectively made these appointments, & that in some instances the Officers of the Customs were, ex officio wreck Commissioners, I
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