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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
No. 1865 1840 Aug. 18, S[TEPHEN] H. EVERITT, JASPER, [TEXAS] TO M[IRABEAUJ B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, [AUSTIN, TEXAS] Introducing G[eorge] W. Smyth. A. L. S. 1 p. No. 1866 1840 Aug. 20, [lVL B. LAJI.IAR] EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, AUSTIN. [TEXAS] TO J. R. JONES, [AUSTINl8 7
Executive Department Austin, 20 Augt. 1840
John R Jones Esqr Post Master Genl. Sir,
Without intending to discuss with you the various irrel- evant subjects embraced in your communication of the 18t. Inst, 88 01· to animadvent on its tone, or the temper in which it seems to have been written, I have only to remark that the late Treasurer 89 was removed from Office in consequence of the Official misconduct of his Chief Clerk, 90 and his refusal to correct the many abuses complained of by the dis- missal of that individual upon the application of the Head of the De- partment to which his Beaureau was attached- These facts \Yere notorious, and could not have been unknown to you when you appointed the same individual to the higher station of Chief Clerk in your De- partment. The Constitution makes it my duty to "see that the laws be faith- fully executed!" and I should be regardless of the Oath I have taken to support that Constitution, were I silently to look on and see a man appointed to a most important situati[on] under the Government, who had a short time before been dismissed from an Office of inferior Grarle upon charges of gross official delinquency, supported by the most re- spectable testimony- I must therefore repeat to you the expression of my belief, that you will not hesitate to remove the present Chief Clerk from the station he holds, and appoint some person to that Office in whom the community will have less cause for distrust-- Should your individual & private predilections render·you averse to this course, I have only to add that your resignation will be accepted whenever you may think proper to tender it- [Endorsed J Jno R Jones. I am Sir, Respectfully, Your Obdt. Servt. Aug 20. 1840. 81 .A. Df. of Jas. Webb. See also ll'os. 1861, 1864, 1873, 1876-7 and 1912. ..No. 1864. 80 .Asa Brigham. Brigham was suspended from office in April because of his inability to account for $37,000 of the public money. He had also, upon request, refused to dismiss the Chief Clerk, his brother-in-law, who was suspected of speculating with the public money. Notice is printed in the Colorado Gcnette and Advertiser of .April 17, 1841, of John Green's diseovery of a packet of ..Doney in the post oaks near his house. This money was counted and the packet identified as that lost by Major Brigham. See also no. 1769. ""W. H. H. Johnson.
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