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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1838
Done at the City of Houston this thirtieth day of June A. D. 1838, and the Great Seal of the Republic affixed. Sam Houston. R. A. Irion, Secy of State. 1 Docmnents under the Great Seal, Record Book No. 97, pp. 25-26; also Dom6stic Correspondence, Texas State Library. The document in Domestic Corl'espondence gives the date as June 13, 1838; otherwise it is identical with the copy in Record Book No. 37.
To ROBERT WILSON 1
City of Houston, 1st July 1838
Dear Sir If the property is sold by me at this time the cash agreeably, to what you, and Capt. Harris propose: shall be forth coming to the hour. Sam Houston [Rubric] Hon. R. Wilson. [P. S.] Come to Liberty H. P.S. I propose to you, to know if I could sell the land if you would take $1,000; each for the share which you might have in it by the former arrangement. I do not know that I can sell it, but if I can I will. Houston. [Addressed]: To Hon. Robert Wilson, or Capt. W. P. Harris Harrisburg Texas Pr. Cado Allen 1Franklin Papers, The University of Texas Library. 2 William Plunkett Harris was a brother to John R. Harris. He came to Texas about 1828 and settled near his brother's farm near Harrisburg. He represented the municipality of Harrisburg in the Consultation. See The Southwestern Hist01·ical Qu,a,1·terly, XVIII, 200-205. 3 Robert Wilson. See Houston to R. A. Ii-ion, February 2, 1837. THE PROCLAMATION ANNOUNCING THE TREATY OF AMITY AND COMMERCE WITH GREAT BRITAIN 1 Whereas a commercial arrangement has been entered into be- tween Her Majesty's Government of Great Britain and this Re- public by which our vessels and goods under the national Flag and with Texian papers, are to be admitted into the ports of the
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