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PAP~RS OF :MIRAilEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
of the 26th. of January 1839 for expenditures which accrued previous to 1840, and should therefore be paid out of the appropriation above alluded to and in accordance with the provisions of the law under which this amount has accumulated as a debt against the Navy Department.
Your obedient Servant Louis P Cooke
Secty Navy
[rubric] [Endorsed] Louis P. Cooke Secretary of the Navy April 3d. 1840.
[Addressed] To His Excellency l\I B Lamar Present
No. 1761
1840 Apr. 3, ALCEE LABRANCHE, HOUSTON, [TEXAS], TO MIRABEAU B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, AUSTIN; [TEXAS] 'raking leave. A. L. S. 3 p. No. 1762 18-40 Apr. 5, L. P. COOKE, AUSTIN, [TEXAS], TOM. B. LAl\IAR, [AUSTIN, TEXASJ 100 Navy Department Austin April the 5th. 1840 'ro His Excellency ) 1iI B Lamar ) Sir Commodore l\Ioore has just informed me that you had finally concluded to direct me to draw and send by him to the island the forty thousand, and 000 dollars due upon the accounts; and to the officers for the year last past- I am pleased that you have done so, for the sooner our debts are paid; and the suffering condition of our officers are relieved the Depattment will feel that it has discharged a moral obligation- • In my conversation with you as to the mode of drawing upon the Treasury Department, for expenditures for the year last past, you ex- pressed an opinion that I should draw in accordance with the provisions of an act past by the last Congress specifying the detail of such transac- tions & requiring requisitions and so forth, Shall I consider myself mstructed to this effect? A general requisition can be made but it would [sic] impracticable to make one in detail
Most respectfully your obt servt Louis P. Cooke [rubric] Secty Navy
[ Enilorsed]
Louis P. Cooke
April 5th. 1840.
iooL. S.
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