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Script cannot be used to disencumber them. That means of rais- ing funds you will consider at an end, and Congress is in active deliberation about other sources of revenue. Still they must be · relieved and if any reasonable advance could be made on the faith of this Government to enable them to return it would be highly gratifying. I wish you would write to your Sub Agent in New York of this subject and suggest to him the most politic course of action which your knowledge of money matters there will enable you to devise. Sam Houston 1 Executive Letter Book No. 1, 127-128, Texas State Library. Consular Co,-respondence, IV, ibid. 2 See House Journal, 1st Cong., 2d Sess., 84-87. Also see The Texas Hia- torical Quarterly, XII, 264.
To STEPHEN F. AusTIN 1 Executive Department Columbia 28. Oct. 1836
To the Hon[ora]ble Stephen F. Austin Sir, I take pleasure in announcing to you, the confirmation of your nomination to the appointment of Secretary of State of this Republic, by the Senate. Should you accept the same, you will indicate your determination, by repairing to this place and entering on the duties of your appointment. Sam Houston [ Addressed] : Hon. Stephen F. Austin Present [ Endorsed] : Samuel Houston Columbia, 28th Oct'r 1836. Notice of Appointment as Secretary of State 1836 President's notice of Appointment of Secretary of State to S. F. Austin. 1 Sani Houston Letters, Archives of The University of Texas.
To IsAAc N. MoRELAND 1 Executive Department, Columbia 29th Oct. 1836
Maj Isaac N. Moreland 2 Sir, You are ordered to proceed without delay to Galveston, and assume the command of that important post. It will there- fore become your duty to be punctual and attent~ve in the dis- charge of your duties as such commanding officer, and from time to time to report to the Department of War for this Republic.
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