128 evidence of their peaceful disposition they have dispatched run- ners to recover the stolen property and bring the offenders to justice. The Col has removed these bands to the vicinity of Fort Mason on the Llano. In reference to the communication of Mr. Kirkpatrick Your Excellency will perceive from an extract of my instructions here- with transmitted that I have no jurisdiction in the matter the United States not being the Sovereign of the Soil. I am inter- ested to cooperate with the State authorities. If Your Excellency will confer the authority upon the U. S. Agents in a definite shape to locate the Indians and to prevent the trafic in spirituous liquors, I am confident that very few outrages would in the fu- ture be committed. As I regard their present unsettled condition and the unrestricted liquor trafic which is now so extensively carried on to be the source of most of that already committed. I have the honor to be Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt GEO T. HOWARD Supert Tex Indians [Endorsed] Geo. T. Howard, Esq. H. S. Superintendent of Texas Indians To Gov. P. H. Bell. • • •
San Antonio, Texas. September 11th 1852 • • • • Relative to the positions of the U. S. Indian Agents for Texas in the discharge of their official duties, & c, &c. Recd at the Exec. Dept. State of Texas Austin, September 20, 1852
No. 103 LETTER FROM ALBT. VON GERMAR FOR OWEN SHAW TOP. H. BELL Camp "Bee"-
15 miles above Laredo Sept. 22nd. 1852.
To His Excellency P.H. Bell Governor of the State of Texas-
I have the honor to report, that at daylight on the morning of the 15th Inst. I received an express from the Hon. H. P. Bee, informing me, that a party of Indians had crossed over from
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