TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916 39 will receive the attention of the department and if possible grant some relief for whkh we will be grateful etc. Wm 0. Han
G. J. McFarland T. B. Haynie C. Foster Oscar Call James B. Stokes H. H. Calvert D. C. Barmore K. Wyckoff J. M. Tamlinsen James Thomas C. Breazeale
Henry Underhitt D. C. Van Buren William Mireck J. T. Hoover Newton Lawler Peter Kerr Redmond R. Kelly
Warren J. Hill K. H. Flippin J. Wills T. H. Harris [Enclorsed] Petition from
the citizens of Burnet County for Protection Burnet July 25/CO
No. 31
LETTER FROM E.W. CAVE TO J. B. FLOYD DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Austin August 14 1860
Hon. John B. Floyd,
Secretary of War:- Dear S!r:
I am instructed by his Excellency, Gov. Houston to call your attention to the two appropriations made by Congress to reimburse Texas for money paid out on account of Frontier Defences. By the act approved March 3, 1859, there was appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, moneys advanced by Texas for the payment of six companies of mounted volunteers, ~alled into service by General Persifor F. Smith, on the 1st of November, 1854, for three months. By the annexed copy of Letter from Hon. C.R. Johns, Comp- troller of Public Accounts. it will be seen that the amount thus expended by Texas is $50,133.31.
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