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5th That no individual contract made between the contractors and emigrants shall exceed one half of the portion of land they may be entitled to-to recompence the contractors for for [sic] cx- pences encurred in transporting said emigrants to the land named in said contract that no emigrant shall rece. a patent for the land till he has resided three years on said land and built a log cabin and enclosed ten acres of Land and cultivated the same 6th That all the expences attending the selection of the land surveying title and other fees be paid by the contractors. 7th the president donate 640 acres of land for a place of public worship for every one hundred families settling 8th That the President allow the contractors as a compensation for their services in recompence of their labor and expence in charter- ing vessels &c for the introduction of the families, ten sections for every hundred families and the same ratio of half sections for ev,~ry hundred single men 9th that the premium iands be selected from the teuitorial limits speci- fied in said contract that a failure on the part of the contractors shall not be prejudicial to the rights of such emigrants as shall be introduced 10th that the contractors agree to introduce one third of the number of families within one third of the time mentioned in the contract unless the president for good and sufficient reasons shall extend the said time Mr. Robert Lambe will be in Austin on the fourth day of June when he will do himself the honour of waiting on your excell~ncy for a reply to this and a letter 7 ' 6 he troubled your excellency with dated Mattagorda some 30 days back asking for the appointment- of Consul to any British port to forward emigration to this republic-any amenment to -this sketch he will be most happy to listen too likewise give Bond and good security for the fullfilmt of any contract he may enter into with
your Excellency May 22d. 1841 [Addressed]
[Endorsed J
His Excellencv
Robert Lambe
Mirabeau· B Lamar Austin
Gonzales
No. 2030
1841 May 23, JOHN C. WATROUS, HOUSTON, [TEXAS] TO M[IRABEAUJ B[UONAPARTEJ LAMAR, AUSTIN, [TEXASl Introducing the bearer. 77 N. S. 1 p.
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