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WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1838
that the promulgation and distribution of the laws and journals of congress should take place throughout the Republic. Sam Houston 1 The Journal of the House of Rep1·esentatives of the Rep1tblic of Texas, 2d Cong., Adjourned Sess., 1837-1838, p. 10. 2 The report of Robert A. Irion, Secretary of State, accompanied this message, and is to be found printed in ibid., pp. 10-13.
To GEORGE W. SrNI{Sl
Executive Department, Texas City of Houston, 17th April 1838
To G. W. Sinks Esq. 2 Sir.
You are hereby appointed as acting Post Master Gen-
eral during the absence of the Honorable Robert Barr.
Sam Houston. [Addressed]: To G. W. Sjnks, Acting P. M. General Texas 1 Julia Lee Sinks Collection of Miscellaneous Documents Relating to Texas History, 1837-1900, Vol. I. 2 George Washington Sinks was chief clerk of the Texas Postoffice depart- ment (Post Office Letter Book, No. 71, in State Department Papers, Texas State Library). Also see The Southwestern Historical Qua1·terly, XX, 107.)
To THE TEXAS SENATE 1
City of Houston, April 17th 1838. To the Senate of the Republic of Texas: In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of yesterday's date, authorizing a call for information concerning the boundary line between the U[nited] States and this Republic, I transmit the accompanying report from the Secretary of State. 1 "Messages of the Presidents," Congressional Pa.pen1; also, Executfoe L6tte1· Book, No. 2, p. 15, Texas State Library. The Journal of the Se11ate of the Republic of Texas, 2d Cong., Adj. Sess., p. 15. Telegraph and Tcxa.s Registe1·, April 25, 1838. The report of the Secretary of State has disappeared from the "Messages of the Presidents," and it was not printed with Houston's letter in the Jom"T!al of the Senate, but it was printed by the Telegraph of April 25, 1838. There it is dated April 18, instead of April 17.
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