WRITINGS OF Sur HOUSTON, 1836
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behalf and to request that you will continue to exercise the powers conferred upon you as Agent for the Republic of Texas. The wants of the Army will immediately demand your exer- tions, and the supplies intended to be procured by Col. A. Huston 2 all the assistance within your power. The credentials furnished him by my predecessor will be sustained by me for the purpose3 contemplated by his mission. If you can succeed in negotiating the individual bonds at a per centum allowance of 12-½ cts, you are authorized to do so upon the faith of this Government. But more than that amount of interest would be considered extravagant and improper. The method heretofore resorted to of raising supplies and defraying contingent expenses by means of scrip for land will now be discontinued as Congress has commenced a course of Legislation on that subject. Other Sources of public revenue will be established and if in addition Congress should authorize a further issue of scrip you will be instructed how to accomplish the views of the Government in that respect. The correspondence will in future be continued in my name and any intelligence affecting this country directly or indirectly will I trust be promptly imparted to you as heretofore. Files of the two public papers will be desirable as they keep up a con- nection of events transpiring abroad. You will be pleased to favor me with these as often as may be possible. If you have been able to get possession of the two 9 pounders presented by the Ladies of Havana you will be pleased to cause them to be mounted and sent to us at the earliest opportunity. The organization of our Government is now completed in ac- cordance with the constitution and we now look forward with bright anticipation to the attainment of those ends for which Texas has consented to be lain waste and for reasons devastated by the enemy. Congress will greatly need the supply· of Stationary recently ordered by my predecessor and in addition you may send 1000 large Wafers for impressing the Seal of this Republic, and also a quantity of good sealing wax. Sam Houston 1 Executive Lcttc1· Book No. 2, 73-74. Consular Correspondence, 0ctob<'r 26, 1836, IV, V. All in the Texas State Library. The original of this letter, received by Toby, varies slightly from this official copy, and is dated October 26, 1836. 2 See Houston to Governor Smith, January 30, 1836.
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