22 tier should be continued in the service for twelve months more after the expiration of their present term. The country will settle so rapidly if full protection is given for that time that their services may then be dispensed with. Should the required protec- tion not be given the settlers on that frontier will be compelled to retire i[n]to the more densely populated part of the country & many will probably leave the state as they have no land in any other part of the country. I must therefore request your Excel- lency to order that the five companies of Texians now in the service for the protection of our frontier be continued for twelve months or others received to supply the place of such as decline mustering in again. I regret to inform you that Captain Howe the mustering master appo[i]nted to muster those com-companies into the service of the U. S. still neglects to muster in Capt T I. Smiths & Capt A Stapps companies and I believe he will not muster them in before their term of service expires. Lt. Govr Horton during my absence from the seat of Government urged him often and strongly to obey the order he had received-he always prom- ised to do so but never complied. I hope if that officer still neg- lects his duty & suffers their term of service to expire without attending to it that it will be speedily so arranged that the men and officers will meet with no delay in receiving their pay. I have assured the officers that I believed it would be so arranged & the companies are now satisfied
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I have the honor to remain your very obedient servant J PINCKNEY HENDERSON
His Excellency
James K. Polk
President of U. States
(Copy) Gov. Henderson to J. K. Polk, President &c Nov. 23d 1846
[Endorsed:]
P. S. Jim Shaw a Delaware Indian who visited Washington City last summer has just called on me and informed me that you
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