PAPERS OF l\fIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
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I am also informed and believe that he has varied from the instruc- tions and regulations relative to purchasing &c. by Navy Agents, in as much as he has made the Government pay a higher price, than cus- tomary, and receive, at the same time, butter and other articles of an inferior quality, if not entirely unfit for use. · With sentiments of the highest respect I have the honor to be
Your Excellency's
most obedient servant ' Musgrove Evans
[Endorsed]
l\I usgrove Evans
2nd. Audit01·
2d. Auditor
Nov. 19th. 1840
Relative to Wm. T. Brannum as Navy .Agent. Filed 21st. Nov. 1840. Wm. H. Sandusky Private Secy. No. 1943 1840 Nov. 20, A. B. SHELBY, HOUSTON, [TEXAS] TO M[IRA- BEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LA~IAR, AUSTIN, TEXAS Introducing Colonel Johnson, ad interim district attorney, and en- dorsing him for permanent appointment. A. L. S. 1 p. No. 194--! [1840 Nov. 21] JI. P. SAVERY, [AUSTIN, TEXAS] TO U[IRA- BEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, [AUS'l'IN, TEXAS] His willingness to sell back to Lamar Caroline, a slave girl. A. N. S. 1 p. No. 1945 1840 Nov. 28, J. R. SLOCOMB, AUSTIN, [TEXAS] / Contract for b-µilding an addition to the smokehouse of Lamar, near College Hill. D. S. 1 p. . Witnessed by H[ugh] :McLeod and William L. Cazneau. No. 1946 1840 Nov. 24, CONDY RAGUET, PHILADELPHIA, [PENNSYL- VANIA] TO MIRABEAU B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, [AUSTIN, TEXAS] Endorsing Francis G. Smith for appointment as consul for Phila- delphia. A. L. S. 3 p. Including appended letter of C. C. Biddle (no. 1947). No. 1947 1840 Nov. 24, CLEMENT C. BIDDLE, PHILADELPHIA, [PENN- SYLVANIA] TO [l\fIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR, AUSTIN, TEXAS] Endorsing F. G. Smith for appointment as consul for Philadelphia. A. L. S. 1 p.
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