The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Volume III

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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY

No. 1686 1840 Jan. 17, A. HOXEY, INDEPENDENCE, [TEXAS], TO l\1. B. LAMAR, AUSTIN, TEXAS.2 4

Independence Jany 17th. 1840

Gen l\'[ B Lamar

Dr. Sr. M:;r Stark from Mississippi has come to our country for the purpose of running a line of mail stage;;: from Austin to Hous- ton; and he has come prepared not to do the talking ;.>ait, but to do real service; he has now in our Settlement 36 fine horses two first rate stages drivers &c, I believe that it will be in the power of the government to make arrangements with l\Ir Stark by which mutual benefit may be derived, l\fr Stark will tell you his views; and perhaps he may be able to comunicate to the Post Office Department information relative to the runing of Stage lines which will be of great advantage to our country As he is the first gentleman who has attempted this business on a large scale I think he deserves encouragement · Your friend

Asa Hoxey

[Endorsedl

[Addressed] Genl. l\I. B. Lamar Austin Texas pr Mr Stark

Asa Hoxey Jan. 17. 1840

No. 1687

[1840 Jan. 18], D[AVID] G. BURNET, SENATE CHAMBER, [AUSTIN, TEXAS], TO MIRABEAU B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, [AUSTIN, TEXAS] Endorsing Judge [H. C.J Hudson for reappointment as district at- torney under the new law. A. N. S. 1 p. No. 1688 1840 Jan. 20, D. G. BURNET, AUSTIN, [TEXAS], 'l'O M. B. LAMAR, [AUSTIN, TEXAS].2~

Austin Jany. 20-1840

To His Excellencv Mirabeau B Lamar Sir

Notwithstanding my promise.2 6 to discharge the duties of the Secretary of State until you could fill that office to your own satisfac- tion, I feel constrained, by the recent attempt to create an excitemenf' 7 on this subject, to request yo~ will, as soon as pra9ticable, nominate some gentleman to the vacant office-

".A. L. S. 20 .A. N. S. 26 No. 1306. "See nos. 1675 and 2125.

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