WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1838
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2"". All persons trading shall advise the Chief Justice of the approach of any Company over ten persons, at least one day pre- vious to entering any town or post to which they may be destined, with a report of their numbers, and the object for which they come.- Srd. They shall report all the Arms on their arrival, and shall deliver up the same to the Chief Justice of the County, who shall give them a receipt for the Arms, and any other articles which may be deposited with him, to be delivered up to them, on their departure for their homes. 4 th • A list of the number of horses, mules and other animals shall be filed with the Chief Justice, and the persons trading who wish to come further into the Country, shall apply to the said officer and obtain from him a permit or passport, stating in it the number of persons, where going and animals, as before de- scribed, and shall on his or their return to the post, leave the same, and receive the articles which are left in deposit-arms &c. 5 th • No company of more than twenty persons, shall be allowed to come with one company or cavallard, unless special leave is first obtained from the Chief Justice, and the Chief Justice of the town, or County shall be allowed and shall receive from the traders at the following rates. For any company of persons amounting to twenty-Twenty dollars-under twenty and over ten in number-Fifteen dollars, and all under ten the sum of Ten dollars, which shall be all that he shall require for his trouble. 6 th • He shall be responsible for all things placed in his custody, and bound to restore the same, as already set forth, and no fees shall be exacted for the same company during the trip, but by one Chief Justice of the Government. 7 th • The permit or passport, shall be evidence that the fees have been once paid, and no more is to be demanded au,. No arms or amunition, is permitted to be sold to persons who come from the Rio Grande, or are trading to any part of Texas. 9 th • No person shall be allowed to trade from the settlements of Texas in the direction of the Rio Grande, nor any companies to be raised without orders of the Government, as no conduct of the kind will be recognized by law, only in case of invasion, when the Militia may be called out on the frontier for the time being.- But no company shall go west of the Nueces, without orders ex- pressly from Government.-
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