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anywise appertaining by the Constitution and Laws of this Re- public. To HAVE AND TO HOLD the same, and all and every the Honors, Fees, Prequisites and Dues thereunto belonging, for and during and until the full end and term of his said appoint- ment. Given under my Hand and the Great Seal of the Republic, this fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty- two and of the Independence of said Republic the sixth. [SEAL] Sam Houston
By the President Anson Jones, Secretary of State. 1 Ashbel Smith Pave,·s, The University of Texas Library.
To THE TEXAS SENATE, NOMINATING NOTARY PUBLICS 1 (Secret) Executive Department, City of Austin, February, 4h., 1842. To the Honorable, the Senate: I herewith submit for the advice and consent of your Honorable Body, the nomination of Francis M. Weatherhead, Jr., as Notary Public for Sabine County; and of Alexander E. McClure, as Notary Public for Burnet County. Sam Houston 1 "Messages of the Presidents," Congressional Papers; also Executive Reco,·d Book, No. 40, p. 41, Texas State Library; E. W. Winkler (ed.), Secret Journals of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 1896-1845, 221. A VETO MESSAGE TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1 Executive Department, City of Austin, February 4h., 1842. To the Honorable, the House of Representatives: Entertaining the opinion that the laws organizing the counties (so called) of La Baca, Guadalupe, DeWitt, and Paschal, are un- constitutional, I cannot do otherwise than place my negative upon all measures intended to consumate the object of their enactment. I therefore return to your Honorable Body, without my signature, the bill "supplementary to an act entitled an act to lay out and or- ganize the County of La Baca; and an act entitled an act to lay out and organize the county of Guadalupe, and an act to lay out and organize the County of DeWitt;'' and, also, the bill "to pro-
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