WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1842
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To THE TEXAS SENATE 1
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Executive Department, City of Austin, January 10, 1842. To the Honorable Senate: I respectfully submit for the con- sent and advisement of your Honorable Body, the nomination of David Ross/ as Captain of Ordnance, in accord with an act of Congress, approved 11th December, 1841. Sam Houston. 1 E. W. Winkler (ed.), Secret Jom·nals of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 1896-1845, p. 214; Executive Record Book, No. 40, p. 18, Texas State Li~ brary. 2 This nomination was confirmed on January 14, 1842. To THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1 Executive Department, City of Austin, January 11, 1842. To the Honorable, the House of Representatives: The attention of your Honorable Body is respectfully invited to the accompanying communication from the Department of State, enclosing a statement from.the General Post Office Bureau. The personal convenience of the Executive is not at all con- cerned in the clerical facilities afforded the several Departments under his control. But under a full conviction of the utter im- practicability of progressing with the public business, without the additional assistance suggested in the communication now submitted for the consideration and action of Congress, he is constrained to recommend that provision be made to meet the indispensable necessities of the Department. Sam Houston. 1 Executive Reco1·d Book, No. 40, Texas State Library. TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1 Executive Department, City of Austin, January 12, 1842. To the Honorable House of Representatives: The bill "for the relief of Captain Thomas N. B. Greer/ and his company of Boggy and Trinity Rangers, organized by request of His Excellency, the President of the Republic, on the 22nd day of February, 1840," has received my attentive examination.
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