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Stock Commissioners, & 2d. Auditors offices have all been abolished-a pretty good sweep- A bill has been passed allowing to Judge Burnet a salary of $10,000. a year, so long as he shall continue, to administ(!r the Government, & thus far he has gone on satisfactory to all parties-I think he will get along very well- I have nothing to say to you in regard to your private affairs as nothing has transpired worth communicating-I would have sent you some money if I could have got any from the Treasury Department, but as yet there is no appropriation for the new year, and the old is entirely exhausted-Indeed, there is not a dollar of bonds or promis- sory notes in the Departmnt. subject to issue, & at present there is no authority to sign them; I hope however by the time l\Ir. Eldridge goes down, I shall be able to send you some- If you desire to have any thing done here at any time, let me know & it shall be promptly attended to, & I shall be very glad to hear from
you whenever your health will permit you to write- Wishing you all happiness & prosperity, I am my
Dr. Genl, most sincerely & truly Your friend James Webb"
[ Addressed]
[Endorsed]
Genl. Mirnbeau B. Lamar at Dr. Roxie's Independence
James Webb
Austin Jan: 18th. 1841
No. 1968
1841 Jan. 26, SAM[UEJL A[LEXANDER] ROBERTS, GALVES- TON, [TEXAS] TO l\IIRABEAU B[UONAPARTEJ LAMAR, [INDEPENDENCE, TEXAS] Contradictory reports regarding Lamar's health and movements; the sheriff's levy upon a lot of Lamar's to satisfy a judgment against Lamar and Huntington last term. A. L. S. 2 p. No. 19.69 1841 Feb. 14, J. HAMILTON PARIS, [FRANCE] •ro EDITQR OF N. Y. HERALD, [NEW YORKJ 34
Paris, February 14, 1841.
To the Editor of the New York Herald:
Sir:- As the commissioners of loans of the republic of Texas were in- ~tructed by his excellency, president Lamar, in the event "of their effect- mg a negociation of the loan for that republic, to make a public an- nouncement of the fact, that meritorious holders of the securties of the government may not be the victims of the speculation of those acting
"Printed. ln New Orleans Bee 1841, Apr. 7; with no. 1993. See also no. 1987.
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