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PAPERS OF l\IIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR
We trouble your Excellency in the absence of any other remedy and flatter ourselves with the hope that our petition will not be in vain and your petitioners will ever pray &c Petitioners Names
James D Owen Ferdinand Breg RH Bradley [rubric] John A Stephen P Cohen J B Greenough [rubric] .John Van Bibber [rubric] John M Foster William G Ewing . [rubric] Henry. B. Moore Samuel l\focire Dennis l\L Fitch Abner S. McDonald Benjamin Richardson Wm Patterson [rubric]
W H Andrews J. T. O'Reilly [ rubric J John Pleasants
[Endorsed] petition from Inhabs. Victoria :M:ch 13, 1840. requesting a company of troops
[Addressed] His Excellency 1\:1 B Lamar
No. 1743
1840 Mar. 13, H. l\fOLLHAUSEN, AUSTIN, [TEXAS], TO 1\I. B. LAl\fAR, AUSTIN, [TEXASJ 8 G Austin, March 13th., 1840. To His Excellency, Mirabeau B. Lamar, President of the Republic of Texas: I beg leave to ask your Excellency whether it might not be advisable to have the Canon brought up to the Presidents Hill, watched always during the night by three men, in order to give instantly a sig11 of alarm, in case the Indians might return. No better use possibly can be made of it, for to shoot. with it during
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