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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR
No. 1379 1839 July 30, J. SHARP, VELASCO, [TEXAS], TO M. B. LAMAR, HOUSTON, TEXAS 83 Velasco July 30. 1839. Your Excellency Some time last spring I recd. from Hon. R. G. Dunlap thru Secy of the Treasury a commission for the location of the Custom House for the Port of the Brazos. I accordingly reported in favour of Velasco-not on account of its being in any way naturally a better harbour or having any advantages Quintana did not posses, but that in Velasco there was a great deal more 9usiness done than in Quintana, there being but one commercial house in the latter while here at that time there were twelve. My report 8 ' was forwarded by mail addressed to Genl. Dunlap as Secy. of the Treasury, but the receipt of it never acknowledged. Within a few days I have learned that Col. W. T. Austin has received a similar commission; by which it would appear that my report has either not been received, or was not satisfactory. As this matter has created some little excitment here, I should feel gratified to be in- formed on the subject. Respectfully Your Obt. Servt. l\L B. Lamar Prest. &c [Addressed] John Sharp [Endorsed]
Velasco ) July 31 )
John Sharp Valasco 30 July '39
His Excellency
M. B. Lamar
Houston, Texas
No. 1380
1839 July, "ALAl\IO." TO [l\IIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAl\IAR,
HOUSTON, TEXAS]
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No. 1381 1839 Aug. 1, JO[H]N A. FORD, GALVESTON, [TEXAS], TO [l\IIRABEAU BUONAPARTE] LAMAR, HOUSTON, TEXAS Endorsing Warner Spencer for appointment as midshipman. A. L. S. 1 p. No. 1382 1839 Aug. i, J[Al\IES] l\IORGAN, NEW WASHINGTON, [TEXAS], TO M[IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAl\fAR, HOUSTON, [TEXAS] Description oi a small tract fronting upon Galveston Bay suitable for purchase by Lamar. A. L. S. 1 p. "A. L. S. "This report is in the Texas Archives, "Comptroller's Letters," under date of April 1, 1839.
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