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time to rest after fatigue: You will forward a Report of your movements with such other information as may be deemed im- portant, by express to reach here between the 20th and 28th of ~he present month, that I may be assured of sufficient time to communicate such orders as may be determined on, prior to the 10th of next month, as it is determined to discontinue the serv- ice of the company at the earliest possible period the emergency will permit. If there be any of the men who are unfit for, or unwilling to perform active duty, or whose animals are in such condition as render them unfit for active service, you are authorized and directed to discharge them without further orders. Your ex- press men have remained here awaiting my orders. Should there be application made to the command from the civil authorities, to assist in the arrest of Garland and his men for the alleged murder of the friendly Indians in Palo Pinto County in December, you will give your assistance promptly, as heretofore instructed, to the authorities for the execution of the warrants, and bring the parties before the proper tribunals for examination; You are aware of the prudence and caution nec- essary in the execution of so delicate a trust, and will resort to force only when it becomes absolutely necessary to exercise it, to ensure the execution of the mandates of the law, you are authorized and will be expected to meet with force, in the afore- said contingency. HR RUNNELS [Endorsed] Instructions to Capt J. S. Ford [H. R. Runnels, Executive Record Book, Number 36, Pages 271-272.J
No. 211 PROCLAMATION BY H. R. RUNNELS Executive Office.
Austin March 12 1859 To the Citizens of Erath, Jack, Palo Pinto, Comanche, and other adjoining Counties to the Indian Reserve Early in the month, in December last, intelligenc·e was furnished me of a combination of the citizens of certain counties JJeighbor- ing the Indian Reserves, unlawfully to make war upon the In-
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