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spectfully represent unto your Excellency That we have organ- ized a volunteer company at present consisting of Forty Men for the purpose of ranging upon the frontier between the Colorado River and Brazos River and that on the 18th Day of October the Company elected its officers to wit Samuel F Mains Captain Samuel H Duncan 1st Lieut B. S. Whitaker 2nd Lieut and Chas A. Wooldridge 3rd Lieut and we the officers aforesaid would re- spectfully ask your Excellency to issue to each of said officers elected as aforesaid commissions to serve as respectively elected for the Term of six months petitioners further show that said election was held in accordance with the Laws regulating the Election of Militia officers as will be surely the returns of the Chief Justice of Lampasas County made to the Secretary of State. In view of the fact that the frontier aforesaid is destitute of any means of protecting itself and the urgent necessity of immediate relief we have undertaken to afford such relief as we can at our own expense for the time being and take the chances for remuneration by the Government at some future period. The .Depredations that have been committed upon the frontier and the depredations that are being daily committed upon said fron- tier by the ruthless savage that are prowling over the same ne- cessity depopulate a large portion of the frontier unless they be relieved. General Government has failed afford that protection necessary to the enjoyment of peace and quietude, and Your Excellency not having at your command the means to afford that protection, then is but one of two things left for the fron- tiers man to do, to abandon his home and all to these fiends or to protect themselves as best they can and only ask Your Excel- lency to grant to the officers commissions that they may have some show in return for the many they have been compeled to expired in the defense of their lives and property
S. F. MAINS Capt A. H. DUNCAN 1st Lieut. B. S. WHITAKER 2nd Lieut A. A. WOOLDRIDGE 3rd Lieut.
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Application for Rangers Lampasas Co.
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