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PAPERS OF :MIRABEAU Buo.RAPARTE LA::r.IAR
No. 2115 18.t,.1 Oct. 30, PETI'l'ION TO l\L B. LAMAR FROM :M. P. WOOD- HOUSE & O'l'HERS 51 Austin October 30th 1841- To His Excellency the President Sir We the undersigned clerks in the various Departments and Bureaus of Government beg leave respectfully to represent First-That by reference to an Act5 2 of Congress approved Feb 5th. 1841, it will be seen that $500 in par funds, or its equivalent are appropriated for the payment of chief clerks and $450 for the pay- ment of Assistant Clerks of the Government- the equivalent to be reg" ulated by the Secretary of the Treasury. Second- that Said Act, makes an appropriation irr the Bonds of the Government for our payment. With regard to the Second representation we take this oppor- tunity of stating_, that we have never demanded payment in Bonds, as was our right, even when we were aware that they were within the vaults of the 'l'reasury. Being-unwilling (as we trust we have evinced) to embarrass the pecuniary affairs of the Government; for we have not been unmindful of the difficulties, that have, and seem destined ever to attend the fiscal Department of Texas. The object then of our note, is to call the attention of Your Excellency, to our first representation, and to the facts- 1st. that Texas Promissory notes are rating at eight for one in par funds; and 2nd. that the Hon Secretary of the Treasury, refuses to allow our claims to be audited for more-than Six for o·n.e. The embarrassments that must attend such a proceedure towards us, will at once strike your Excellency, being in possession of the fact, that our compensation was reduced by Law to the lowest possible rate that would ensure a support, even by the exercise of the most rigid economy on our part; and it needs no assurance we trust, from us to satisfy you, that· we would not thus_encroach upon your time and attention, were our circumstances such, as to enable us to abide the decision of the Hon Secretary of the Treasury. We therefore respectfully request that our claims will receive your earliest attention. We have the honor to be
Your Excellency's l\Iost Obt Servants
M P Woodhouse Chf Olk Gen Land Office 'l'hos. Gales Forster · chf. Olk. Dept. of War. M. C. Hamilton Joseph Waples chf Olk Dept State
Augustus Seger
Chf Olk Naval Bureau. H. H. Carrin Ohf. Ck. A. B. T. Henderson Asst C. T. D. [rubric] D. H. Gattis Wm H, Murrah
"D. S. By Woodhouse and others.
"See Gammel, H. P. N., Laws of Texas, II, 181.
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