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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
No. 2029 1841 May 22, R. LAMBE, GONZALES, [TEXAS] TO l\I. B. LAMAR, AUSTIN, [TEXAS]a Gonzales May :i2 1840 To His Excellency Mirabeau B Lamar President of the Republic of Texas. Sir Haveing shortly to leave this country on my return to London I should like to know if your Excellency would grant me a ccntract to introduce Emigrants of the agricultural classes into this republic agreeable to the: act 75 of last Congress approved Jany 4" 1841 entitled an Act granting land"' to emigrants, as in case your excellency thought proper to grant me the same terms as is granted in the above act-:-to the .contractors W. S. Peters, and others, see section 4 to sec. 13 of the said act I should be willing to submit the following contract for the approval of your Excellency 1st. I. Robert Lambe of Gonzales, Citizen of the Republic and Alfred Lambe Esqre. of Bethual Green London- Sir Charles Edward Jenkins, Great Prescott St London A Boydell Lambe l\Iercht. New Bond St London Austin Esqre Canterbury- Kent England- H. G. Crocker Ilchester Somerset England Adams Esqre. West Brown- wich near Birmingham Kraushaw Esqure Bethual Green London agree to introduce Emigrants to the number of one thousand families or in the proportion of two single men above the age of seventeen to count as one family; familys to be entitled to 640 acres of land and single men to 320 acres ditto within the space of five years the first settlement to be made within the first year from the signing of the contract, the said Robert Lambe agrees individually or collectively with the other named parties to colonise and settle any portion of the vacant and unappropriated lands of the republic as shall actually be surveyed and named in the contract signed by the President 2nd That the ,:aid contract shall be drawn up by the Secretary of , State setting forth such regulations and stipulations as shall not be contrary to the general principles of the law and constitution which contract shall be signed by the contractor, and President of the Republic Frankum Esqre "Times Office" Ellis-Esqre. Mile End London 3nd That the President shall designate certain boundaries to be above the limits of the present settlements within which the emigrants under the contract must reside that all legal grants and surveys that may be located within the boundaries be respected- 4th That not more than one section of six hundred and forty acres be located in a s[q]uare be given to any family comprehended in the said contract nor more than three hundred and twenty to a single man over the age of seventeen.
..A. L. S. "See Gammel, H. P. N., Laics of Texas, II, 554.
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