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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
No. 1871 1840 Aug. 25, W[ILLIA]M 'r. AUSTIN, VELASCO, rTEXAS] TO M[IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, AUSTIN, ['l'EXAS] Endorsing Horatio N. Walcott £or notary public of the port of Velasco, to succeed John Sharp, deceased. A. L. S. 1 p. No. 1872 1840 Aug. 27, J. R. JONES POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, AUS- TIN [TEXAS] TO J. P. BARHYDT. ORDER 92 Post office Department City of Austin Aug 27 1840 D P Barhydt Esq. Acting Treasurer Republic of Texas Sir please pay Messrs Garraty Grimes and Highsmith or order contractors for carrying the mail on the route be- tween Austin and Houston Five thousand dollars and charge the same to this department
Yours Respectfully J no Rice Jones
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Post ~faster Gen.I
No. 1873 1840 Aug. 28, [l\1. B. LAMAR) EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, AUSTIN, [TEXAS] TO J. R. JONES, [AUSTIN] 93
Executive Department
John R Jones Esq.
Austin August 28 1840
Postmaster General.
Sir,
Although several days have elapsed since I addressed you a note 94 requesting you to remove your Chief Clerk Mr. Johnson, yet I have received no response. In first requesting the removal 9f that Gentleman as Chief Clerk from your department I was prompted by no personal ill will to him, but acted alone from a sense of duty, having had strong reasons to believe he had been guilty of malpractices whilst he was Chief Clerk in another Bureau. Since writing my last note, that Gentleman within your own knowledge has published an insolent paper traducing the motives of the President in removing him from his former situation, and yet under these circum- stances you still retain him in your employment. So far as this extraor- dinary conduct on your part may be intended as an insult to me per- sonally I am not at liberty to notice or regard, but inasmuch as it is most unjustifiable disrespect to the Chief Magistrate of the Republic,
"Copy. See also no. 1876. 0 8Df. See also nos. 1861, 1864, 1866, 1876-7 and 1912. .. No. 1861.
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