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and other citizens of Texas now held in captivity by the Indians. This is therefore to authorize the said Leonard S. Friend to draw drafts upon the state to the amount of fifteen hundred dol- lars in United States currency in case it shall be necessary for him to use that amount for the redemption and return to Texas of any citizens of said state now held in captivity by the Indians. Which amount now stands to the credit of said appropriation in the Treasury of the State of Texas In witness whereof 18th 1868 [Endorsed] Letter of Credit to Leonard S. Friend
No. 181 ACT OF LEGISLATURE [.July 18, 1868]
To all to whom, these presents Shall come. Whereas an Act was passed by the Legislature of Said State and approved on the 24th of October 1866, by which an appro- priation was made to be used by the Governor under Such rules as he may prescribe in procuring the release of Children or other persons, Citizens of the State, who are now, ha.ve been, or may hereafter be held as Prisoners of War by the Indians. And Whereas it has been made known to me that about the 5th of February 1868 Two Children Viz: Lee Temple Friend a boy Eight years old and Malinda Caudle a Girl about Nine years old, were captured by Indians in Llano County in said State and carried away, and it has also been made known to me that said children are now held Captives by the Indians Somewhere in the Neighborhood of Council Grove, and that other persons, Citizens of Texas, who were captured by Indians Sometime previous to the present year are also held in Captivity hy thC' Indians in the Same Neighborhood. Now therefore I, E. M. Pease Governor of Tl'.r<tS b,v virtue of the authority eonferred upon me by the said law do hereby appoint and commission Leonard S. Friend as the Agent of Said State of Texa~, to ,·isit that part of the Country where Said Captives are Supposed to be or any others "·here
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