70
TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
Brot up
$1,226,817.-66 36,000.00
Recd. from Henry Smith for Disbursment " from R G Dunlap " from J Webb " from J H Straw " Returned by A C Horton
192,696.00 362,500.00 540,250.00 1,000.00
$1,142,446.00 157,789.23 27,813.89
Cash on Hand 10th D'ecr. Reissued Disbursed upon % Annexed
$1,328 049.12 1,226 817.66
On hand
$ 101,221.36
Treasurers Office
Houston 17th. August 1839
No. 1410
1839 Au1g. 17, J. P. HENDERSON, PARIS, [FRANCE], TO 1\1. B. LAMAR, [HOUSTON, TEXAS] 6 Paris August 17th 1839 Excellent Sir Since my last to the Secretary of State 7 I have had frequent discussions with the Marshal Duke Minister of Foreign Affairs & Mr Pontois upon the various points involved in the pending negotia- tion. We have disposed of those which seem most difficult in a manner which I hope will be satisfactory to yourself & the People of Texas I have obtained their consent to reduce the duty on Texian cotton im- ported into France in the vessels of the t,rn Nations -½ cent per pound which will give us that advantage over the United States. In considera- tion of that reduction I have agreed to reduce the duty now imposed upon the Silks & Wines of France imported in like manner into Texas. We have not yet agreed upon the amount that shall be taken off of these articles as I made to them two propositions that they may choo8e between them. The greatest reduction I have proposed is one half of the present duty imposed upon those two articles. They proposed that in that case Texas should not reduce the duty on those articles when brought from other countries without making a corresponding reduction at the same· time upon the French articles so as to keep up the same proportion which will exist between the duty imposed by this Treaty on the French & the duty collected under the Tariff of 1837 on the articles of other countries. To that I objected because (in part) it would em- 0 A. L. S. 1 Printed in Garrison, G. P., Diplomatic Oorrespondence of the Republic of TelWS, II, 1265.
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