181 where there are large bodies of Indians congregated. They as- sume a very threatening appearance.
I am very respectfully Your Obedient servant
ROBERT S. NEIGHBORS
Special Indian Agent
To His Excellency EM. Pease Austin Texas
R S Neighbors San Antonio May 1854
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No. 133 LETTER FROM E. M. PEASE TO ROBERT 8. NEIGHBORS
Executive Office Austin, Texas 8th May 1854
Maj RS Neighbors Dear Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt on the 6th inst of your letter of the 2nd, giving an account of your proceedings in relation to the depredations lately committed by the Tonkahua Indians. I have communicated to the Citizens of the Counties in which these depredations were committed, the fact, that they are now in close custody at Fort Inge, ready to be delivered to the Civil authorities upon my requisition, and advised them that I am pre- pared to give the requisition whenever proper measures are taken and warrants are issued for this arrest by the officers of the county in which the offences were committed. Unless this is done I do not think that I have any authority to issue a requi- sition. I have no much expectation if they are delivered to the civil authority that any of them will be convicted, for it will be nearly impossible to identify them as the Indians who committed the offences and I presume that the admissions they have made will
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