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reference to the two last nominations, it might be well that they should have power to appoint such Deputies as shall be requisite for enforcing the Revenue Laws, by first referring the subject to the Secretary of the Treasury Sam Houston [Addressed] : The Honorable Senate of the Republic of Texas. [Endorsed]: Nominations of the President of Revenue Officers passed with rejections May 20, 1837. 1 H,mston Lettel's in Domestic Co1·1·espo11dence, Texas State Library. E. W. Winkler (ed.), Sec.l'et Journals of the Senate, Re7>ttblic of Texas, 1886- 1845, 48. 2 The nominations of Gail Borden, Jr., Jeremiah Brown, and R. C. Doom were carried; but the nomination of Thomas Stewart was lost by nine to two votes; that of James Gaines was lost unanimously. See Secret Journals of the Senate, 48-49. To THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1 Executive Department, Houston, 19th May 1837. To the Honorable Speaker of the House of Representatives: I have the honor herewith to transmit to your Honorable body the memorial of Captain Ross, formerly of the Steamer Yellow Stone in behalf of himself and Crew, 2 a list of which is herewith annexed together with a copy of a letter addressed to him by the Commander in Chief of the Army on the 2nd day of April, 1836.J I would respectfully recommend that the promise therein made shall receive your legislative sanction. When it is considered that our army was, at the time the promise was made, pressed on all sides by an overwhelming number of foes and without the possible means of crossing the river Brazos, save by the assistance of the boat under the command of Captain Ross, you will be able to appreciate the services rendered by the Petitioners and the propriety of fully complying with the undertaking which it was deemed necessary then to enter into, because, in as much as the boat's crew were all citizens of the United States, it was not within the power of the commanding officer to deliver them without the promise as was then made, and I do not hesitate to declare that the safety of our army depended upon the assistance of that Boat, there being no means within the power of the army to build boats to cross the river which was then very much swollen and remained so for some weeks. =-
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