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Military Commission Eli Chandler, Esq.
[Endorsed]
Recommended for appointment to the command of a Company of Rangers for frontier protection. Wheelock, Texas September 4th 1852 Recd at the Exec. Dept. State of Texas Austin, September 11, 1852
No. 102 LETTER FROM GEORGE T. HOWARD TO PETER HANSBOROUGH BELL San Antonio 11th Sept 1852 To His Excellency P H Bell Gov Texas Sir By last weeks mail I received your letter of 31st Au- gust referring two communications to me which had been ad- dressed to the executive department of the State, one a petition from certain Citizens of Gillespie County praying that the Lipans & Comanches should be removed from the Llano in consequences of certain outrages committed by them. The second a communi- cation from Wm H. Kirkpatrick requesting permission for an aged Indian to remove himself and family within the limits and protection of the White Settlements. In regard to the first named communication the affair was reported to me some six weeks ago by Kitmas' Castro & Chichita, Chief of the bands to whom the Indians belonged who committed the alledged outrages. Immediately upon the receipt of this infor- mation I dispatched Col. Capron one of my Cadjubows to investi- gate the affair and take such steps as he might deem advisable to bring the offenders to justice, and to guard against the com- mission of such outrages in future. The Col reports that the Ac- count of these outrages were greatly exaggerated and that they were committed by a few drunkin Indians who were made so by unprincipled white men who reside in Fredericksburg & Vicinity and sell liquor to the Indians. He also states that the chiefs and older men of the tribe are anxious to remain upon terms of peace & amity with the Whites. But that they are unable to control their young men when the Whites let them have liquor. As an
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