WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1836
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To THE TEXAS SENATE 1
Executive Department, Columbia, 15th Dec. 1836.
· To the Honorable the Senate Gentlemen
I take pleasure in nominating to you Niles F. Smith,2 as a suitable person to be appointed Commissioner "for the purposes contemplated in the 10th Article of the Charter of the Bank of Agriculture and Commerce ;" 3 as confirmed by a joint resolution of your honorable body, "for the relief of Messrs. McKinney & Williams." And I hope, your honorable body, will freely concur with me in his appointment. . Sam Houston 1 E. W. Winkler (eel.), Sec,·et Journals of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 1836-1845, 32. ::Niles F. Smith was a successful and prosperous business man of Texas during the Republic. Comptroller's llfilita.1·y Sc,·victt Records, 437, 572, show that Niles F. Smith Eerved during the Texas Revolution in a corps of engineers, and that he received a salary of $100 per month. These docu- ments also show that this man owned property in Houston; that the Sec- retary of State's offices were housed in a building that belonged to him, for which he received a monthly rental from the Government. The Secret Journals of the Semite, pp. 32, 220, 282, 307, 298, show the fact that in December, 1836, he was nominated and confirmed as Notary Public for J etferson County. 3 See Gammel, Laws of Texas, I, 1135. PROCLAMATION CONCERNING FRAUDULENT AGENTS 1 Whereas, it has been represented to me that various persons in the United States, who represent themselves as the agents of this republic, have received large sums of money from the good people of the said states, without accounting for the same to thi3 government, either by paying it over to the proper department, or showing in what manner they have expended it: And whereas, it is the determination, as well as the duty of this government, to prevent impositions of a like character from being practiced upon its friends in the United States, who have contributed so liberally to relieve our wants: And whereas, other dishonest persons, encouraged by the suc- cess of those who have already traversed the country "ithout authority, imposing upon a generous public, may attempt and practice the same imposition, unless this go,·ernment shall do some act to prevent it:
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