The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Volume III

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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY

Your Excellency will excuse me for believ- ing, that throughout your unlooked for letter, there is much special pleading, without premices, and generalities which cannot apply to the case--that not to answer this letter ,vould be subscrib~ing to your erro- neous positions which makes both Dr. Archer, and myself capable of injustice to Col. Bee, and of the injury to the country.- My appo!ogy then, for again addressing your Excellency is neither desire or hope of serving Dr. Archer further_ than a just vindication against positions which your letter seems inclined to make us occupy and which would be neither creditable to the applicant for or the recipient of your favours.-The only pardon I crave, is for this infliction of a letter which has grown upon me to a tedious length, and which may prove still more uninteresting to your Excellency.- The unnecessary importance which I think you have given my application, seemed to make it proper that I should submit both your letter and this answer to Dr. Archer, and he requests me to assure your Excellency in these words,- that ''he never desired, sought, or expected, favour at your hands by being appointed to any office within your gift by which he could be benefitted." I am very r(;lspectfully Your Excellencys Obt Svt (Signed) Tlios J. Green. [rubric] This letter was delivered to me by my private Secty on 3rd. Octr 1841. 47 No. 2102 1841 Oct. 4, AUG[USTUSl SEEGER, AUSTIN, [TEXASl TO M[IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAUAR, [AUSTIN, TEXAS] Application for a testimonial. A. L. S. 1 p. No. 2103 1841 Oct. 5, S. A. ROBERTS DEPARTMENT OF STATE, AUSTIN, [TEXAS] TO J. G. CHALMERS, [TREASURY DEPART- -:\IEXT, AFSTTN, 'l'EXASJ . 48 Department of State . Austin Oct 5th. 1841 Ron John. G Chalmers Secretary of the Treasury Sir The appropriation for the transporta- tion of the mail is deficient, for the quarter ending the 30th. September, about Five thousand and seven hundred dollars in par funds which at the rate of 7 to 1. will amount to a little over thirty seven thousand dollars in the promissory notes of the Govt.- The contractors are

' 7 Note by Lamar. 48 A. L. S.

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