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TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1844-1845
[Endorsecl] 1792
$ 106211 Torrey and Co
Admitted Sept 21st/44 for One Thousand and Sixty Two anc! 11/100 dollars Goods furnished the Indians
H. W. Raglin Actg Auditor
Approved Sept 21/44 James B Shaw Comdt
Recd Warrant Torrey and Co.
No. 31 LETTER FROM J.C. NEILL, L. H. WILLIAMS AND THOMAS I. SMITH TO SAM HOUSTON [May 23, 1844]
To His Excellency Gen. Sam Houston President of the Republic of Texas Sir,
We the Commissioners appointed by your Excellency for the purpose of treating with the Comanche Indians, and distribut- ing presents to them, and the other Tribes that might come in, beg leave to report, that in company with the Hon. Geo. W. Hill, Secretary of War and Marine, be united at the Council Ground on Tehuacana Creek on the 14th day of April, where we found a portion of the Dalaware, Caddo, and Shawnee Indians already assembled. On Monday, the 22nd inst.• Mr Dan'iel G. Watson came in from the Comanche who informed us that that Tribe would not b~ in to treat with us at the present time in con~equence of their young men having gone out in different directions, in hunting parties and could not be called together. Mr. Watson gave to Maj Thos. G. Western, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, a talk had with the Comanche Chief; a copy of which we forwarded to your Excellency, by express in the 25th inst. together with a letter, asking for information relative to the distribution of presents to the Indians assembled on the Council Ground.
•The authors ot this document used Inst. and Ulto. Interchangeably.
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