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WRITINGS OF SAiVI HOUSTON, 1838
To THE TEXAS SENATE 1 Executive Department, Texas, City of Houston, 10th Dec. 1838. To the Honorable Senate, Gentlemen In accordance with a resolution of the Senate of the 21st ultimo respecting the foreign relations of the Republic, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, and the docu- ments which accompany it: It will be found of the most satisfactory character, and evinces the most conclusive...~vidence of the labors, as well as the ability and capacity of the Hon [orable] Sec [retary] of State. Sam Houston. 1 E. W. Winkler (ed.), Sec1·et Journals of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 1896-1845, 116. 2 The editor of the Sec1·et Jounials of the Senate revorts (see footnote No. 7, p. 116) that he had not been able to find the report and documents referred to. A close search has been made through the Cong1·essional Pa71e1·s, 1838, in the Texas State Library by the editors of this collection, but these documents were not found. CERTIFICATION OF JOHN S. ROBERTS' APPOINTMENT AS QUARTERMASTER, DECEMBER 11, 1838 1 I certify on honor that agreeably to a law passed at the last Session of Congress, and over the veto of the President, Major John S. Roberts 2 was appointed Quarter Master by Major Gen- eral Thos. J. Rusk, Commanding the Militia of Texas, and that he has acted as such. Said law rendered this appointment absolutely within the con- trol of the Major General altho' not in the Laws printed; it is nevertheless the law on which Major General Rusk appointed Major Roberts as Quarter Master, and the President felt bound to commission him accordingly- Given at the City of Houston this 11th day of December, A. D., 1838. Sam Houston [ Rubric] 1 Compt1-olle1·'s Milita1·y Service Records,-Qua.1·ten11aster Returns and Miscellaneous Papc1·s, Texas State Library. ~John S. Roberts was born in Virginia in 1796, removed to Louisiana in 1826, and came to Texas in 1833. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of March, 1836, and was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and of the First Constitution of Texas. See Sam Houston Dixon, 1ltlen Who Made Texas Free, 249-253 for some biographical details. See also, William C. Binkley, O/fici<tl Corrcspo11Clcnce of the 7'e.ra-n Revolution, I, 468.
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