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States Government to give such orders as will ensure their re- moval and prevent them from again returning
I have the honor very respectfully Your obt servt HR RUNNELS
To Brvet Maj Genl D. E. Twiggs
Comg. Dept of Texas
Dec 22nd/57 Letter to Genl. Twiggs concerning Indian Depredations-- Recorded on Page 9.
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No. 149 LETTER FROM H. R. RUNNELS TO J. P. HENDERSON Executive Office Austin Dec. 23, 1857 Dear Sir I herewith forward for your information the copy of a letter addressed to this office by Maj R. S. Neighbors supervising Agent Texas Indians in regard to the recent depredations com- mitted on the frontier of this State. From this letter it will ap- pear that these depredations have been committed by the Kick a-poos a tribe located north of our border, and which have never belonged to the territory of Texas. These Indians have been in- truded on us by passes from the government of the United States. It is the duty of that government to remove them and indemnify our citizens for the losses they have sustained by virtue of their intrusion I have transmitted a copy of the letter of the Agent to the Legislature for it action and have allso this day communicated with Gen Twiggs on the same subject requesting his aid and co- operation with the general government if he should not possess full authority himself for the procurement of our wishes. The Legislature has during the present session ordered out one hundred men for the protection of the frontier against a recurrence of these depredations and appropriated Twenty thou- sand dollars for their pay and subsistence which it will be ex- pected the General Government will refund without hesitation
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