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Enclosed is a list (copy of) of the members of my Co. ; about as many more is on the other list, and can be filled out to one hundred in each Co: W. W. Dunlap, the Maj : elect, will write to you more par- ticulars. An answer from Your Excellency at your earliest conven- ience will be recd. with pleasure. By your humble Servt: (signed) EDWARD J. MCLANE Executive Department State of Texas Austin, Deem. 31, 1852 I hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a document on file in this Department.
CHAS : A. HARRISON Private Secretary.
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"A" No. 9 LETTER FROM P. H. BELL TO DON BACILIO BENEVIDES
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Executive Department, State of Texas. Austin, May 7th 1853.
Senr. Don Bacilio Benevidis, and others, Laredo, Texas. Gentlemen:
From a communication just received from Hamilton P. Bee Esq: of your town, dated April 20th, 1853, I learn with surprize and regret that considerable feeling of cen- sure exists in your County in consequence of an alledged refusal on the part of the Texian Volunteers (who were until lately per- forming military service in your vicinity for the protection of that part of the frontier,) to restore to the rightful owners the
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