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No. 283 LETTER FROM THOMAS G. WESTERN TO L. H. WILLIAMS Washington 13 Aug. 1845 L. H Williams Esqr Indian Agt Post No 2. Sir Your communication dated 2d in- stant is at hand, but, I have not received that of the day previous you mention, and am consequently in the dark as respects the news and the points upon which I had written you, It was probably Enveloped to the War Dept. if so, it has doubtless been forwarded to Austin as that Dept of the Govt. is now established there, You will please hereforth and until further orders place your dispatches to me pr. mail under envelop of the Department of State - It is expected that the invoices Inqu'ired of you in my last are among those documents [illegible] but should any legal ob- stacle have interposed to prevent it you need not send them at present as I have received copies of the Messr. Torreys from Houston. The case of Jim Shaw is noticed and shall be immed'iately attended to- Proposals have been open for some time for the delivery of (300) Three hundred bushels of corn [to] be furnished the Govt. no person as yet has made a bid, the [time] is growing short and this matter must be at- tended to without [any] further delay, You will therefore [on] the rece·ipt of this proceed to Bucksnort or elsewhere where corn may be had, and make the best contract you can for (300) Three hundred bushels of corn for Cash upon delivery at the Post No. 2. Council Ground Tehuacana Creek previous to the (15th) fifteenth of September next- Your will not omit to get the Red-Bears horses from the Sheriff of Milam County, in time to have them at the Council. It may be well to assure you of the fact that the U. States Govt. has already introduced Troops in to this Country, the 2d. Regt. Dragoons crossed the Brazos at this place on the 8th inst. and proceeded Westward you can inform our Red Brethern of
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