TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1846-1859
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To Col. Pierce M. Butler, Sir,
Colonel Smith having informed me that you requested him to procure such information as I might be able to furnish in regard to the Contracts and Treaties made by our late Gov- ernment with the various tribes of indians within our limits I have the honor, herewith, to send you copies of the only trea- ties now in force, which the Government of the Republic ever made with them. I learn from a gentleman who was connected with the State Department when the first treaty was made, that the indians objected to being limited to any particular country, and, therefore, no particular section was a~signed them by either treaty. One treaty you will find in the pamphlet- the other has not been printed and I send a written copy of it. Mr. Torrey, has called on me for some instructions or information in regard to the course most proper for himself and others to pursue who were appointed Indian Agents and etc, by our late Government. And I have informed him that I have no power to direct them or continue them in their places--but advised him to continue to act, should it meet your approbation, until they are superceded or directed to discontinue by the au- thority of the President. As far as my acts and etc., are con- cerned, the whole subject is submitted to your determination. I send you also some few late news-papers-the only ones I have received since my arrival at this place. I shall at all times be happy to see you in Austin. I have the Honor to be Your Most Obt. Servt. J. PINCKNEY HENDERSON [J. Pinckney Henderson, Executive Record Book, Number 30, Page 16.]
No. 53 LETTER FROM J. P. HENDERSON TO E. B. COGSWELL
Executive Department Austin, March 16, 1846
To/
Mr. E. B. Cogswell,
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