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PAPERS OF l\IIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LA:r.rAR
No. 1723 1840 Feb. 14, ANNA MARIA KINTZING, PHILADELPHIA, [PENNSYLVANIA], TO M[IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, [AUSTIN, TEXAS] Requesting the appointment of her son, C~arles l\IcAlest~r Kintzi~g, to a lieutenancy in the Army or Navy; enclosmg a letter of mtroduction given to Kintzing by Dunlap. A. L. S. 3 p. No. 1724 '1840 Feb. 15, C[ORNELIUS] VAN NESS, SAN ANTONIO, [TEX- AS], TO l\I[IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAl\IAR, AUS'I.'IN, [TEXAS] Endorsing John C. Hays for appointment as surveyor to run the northwestern line of Travis Countv. A. L. S. 2 p. Including appended signatures ~f endorsement. No. 1725 1840 Feb. 15, S. V. GREER AND OTHERS, SAN AUGUSTINE: TEXAS, TO l\L B. LAMAR, AUSTIN, TEXAS 68
San Augustine, Texas, · Feb. "15th. 1840.
His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Texas.-
The undersigned have learned with regret that an effort is being made, by petition, to procure the appoint- ment of a Notary Public in this place, upon the pretense that the Chief Justice of the County court (ex officio notary public) resides at an in- convenient distance in the country. It is true that the former Chief Justice does reside in the country ·and yet, we believe, he has teen able to discharge the duties of his notarial office without inconvenience to the public; but the present incumbent of that office (Alexander M Davis) during the past year has had, and now has his residence in the town of San Augustine. The duties of the office, it is belieYed will not be more arduous than they have heretofore been, and as l\lr. Davis (not having as yet received his commission) has not entered upon the duties of his office, it is obvious that the movement of the petitioners is prerrwture as well as wholly unfounded. From our personal knowledge of the character of Mr. Davis for integrity ability and business habits, we have no hesitancy in saying that all the duties of the office will J.ie performed by him to the entire satisfaction of the public. We were gratified that the emoluments of the office (which barely compensate for the time necessarily devoted to it) were deemed sufficient to command the services of one so competent as the present incumbent-but should 1 the attempt, 'indirectly to deprive him of them, succeed, he ·would, we apprehend, be induced to relinquish it, since striped of the very smalJ 1 compensation now attached to it, it must become a tax upon him~an .. L. S.
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