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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
No. 167'.l 1840 Jan. 1, SA1\I HEWES, LAMAR, [TEXAS], TO 1\I[IRABEAUJ B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, [AUSTIN, TEXAS] Requesting transfer from the collectorship of Lamar to a more lucra- tive office. A. L. S. 1 p. No. 1672 1840 Jan. 2, M. HUNT, GALVESTON, [TEXAS], TO 1\I. B. LAMAR, [AUSTIN, TEXASJ 0 7 I shall leave here on the steamer Rufus Pulman on the 4th for the Sabine it being the first conveyance that I could procure after the arrival of the New York on yesterday with the $5.000 for the expenses of the Mission I could not procure specie but the city notes of New Orleans will answer the same purpose. In greate haste I have the honor to . be your friend & sv't :Memucan Hunt To His Excellency 1\I B Lamar &&&
[Endorsed] Uemucan Hunt
Jan 2, 1840
No. 1673
1840, Jan. 3, M. B. LAMAR, AUSTIN, [TEXAS] 8 A l\Iessage. In reply to a Resolution of the Senate calling for information concern- ing the Navy.
Executive Department Austin January 3d 1840.
To the Honorable Senate:-
I have had the honor to receive the resolution, requesting the Presi- dent "to inform the Senate by what authority he appointed ninety Naval Officers, during the recess of Congress this present year". In answer to this resolution, the President £xperiences some difficulty in determining to what particular point the enquiry of the Senate is directed. He does not know precisely whether it is the wish of that honorable body merely to ascertain the President' reas?n for making so many naval appointments as ninety, or whether they desire to he 0 .A.. L. S. 7 The first part of the letter is omitted because of its unimportance. "Copy. In no. 361, p. 187. The original is in the Texas archives, House Journal, Secretary of State Department.
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