WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1837
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Senate, do commission him first Lieutenant of first Regt of Reg- ular Infantry in the service of the REPUBLIC OF TEXAS; to rank as such from the Eighteenth day of May eighteen hundred and thirty seven. He is therefore carefully and diligently to dis- charge the duty of First Lieutenant of Infantry by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And I do strictly charge, and require all officers and soldiers under his command to be obedient to his orders as First Lieutenant of Infantry, and he is to observe and follow such orders and direc- tions from time to time, as he shall receive from me, or the future . President of the Republic of Texas, or the General, or other superior Offis:ers set over him, according to the rules and dis- cipline of War. The Commission to continue in force during the pleasure of the President of the Republic of Texas, for the time being. [SEAL] Given under my hand at Houston, this Eleventh day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty- seven, and in the second year of the independence of the Republic of Texas. By the President Sam Houston Barnard E. Bee, Secretary of War. 1 Woodhouse and Hunt Pape,·s, Texas State Library.
THE VETO OF A JOINT RESOLUTION OF CONGRESS 1
Executive Department, Houston, Oct. 24, 1837.
To the Hon. Congress of the Republic of Texas. GENTLEMEN: I have had the pleasure of receiving a joint resolution, requesting the Secretary of War to execute certain duties. This resolution is submitted for the approbation of the Executive. I regret that a sense of duty. is the least hesitancy on the part of the Executive, to yield his sanction to it. It was supplemental to a General Land Bill, which by its own provisions, was rendered inoperative, for a certain time, and subject to a suspension by the action of the Executive. It was not thought to be imperative as to its immediate execution. Had the Executive approved its immediate execution, or the Secretary of War performed it, nothing appeared more ruinous to the country. Our army was numerous; it was destitute of clothing; ..
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