TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1825-1843
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Executive Depart of the State of Coahuila and Texas
His Excellency the Commandant General of these States under date 15th August last communicates to me the following: "Excellency-To comply with the promises made to the Cherokee tribe of Indians, by the Supreme Government, and consulting the preservation of peace with the agricultural Tribes, I have proposed them their settlement on a fixed tract of land, and they having selected it on the Headwaters of the River Trinity and the Banks of the Sabine, I request Your Ex- cellency, to cause that they be put into the possession of the same with the corresponding titles; and it is understood that the Commissioner appointed to that effect will agree to act in conjunction with Citizen Jose de las Piedras Colonel Command- ing the frontier of Nacogdoches." Which I do communicate to your Honor for your informa- tion, and for the purpose of adopting the necessary measures that the aforesaid agricultural Tribe shall be represented before this Government through the medium of an attorney infact, and he be instructed for the same purpose for which alike pro- ceedings have been adopted on the 19th July last as regards the Coushatta and Alabama Indians. God and Liberty, LEONA VICARIO 1st September 1831. (signed) Letona (signed) Santiago de] Valle Secy. To the Hon: the Political Chief of the Department of Bexar. A true translation of the original Spanish which I attest. Geo. Fisher Translator to the Senate
LETTER FROM DON RAMON MUSQUIZ TO JOSE MARIA LETONA [September 25, 1831]
Office of the Political Chief of the Department of Bexar
Excellency,
Being informed of the contents of the official note of His
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