WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1842
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ment for the pay and Mileage of Members of Congress. Pay for the Officers of both houses. District Judges, Heads of Depart- ments, Bureaus, and Clerks, at the Seat of Government, who have balances now due to them. And await further Orders in relation to the opening of other Appropriations. He will also furnish the Treasurer with a sufficient Amount of Exchequer Bills to pay all warrants drawn by the Auditor and Comptroller upon the Appropriations by this Order opened. Sam Houston [Rubric] [Endorsed] : Instructions from the Executive to open Appro- priations. 1 Comptroller's Letters; also Executive Record Book, No. 40, p. 42, Texas State Library. 2 See Houston to E. L. Stickney, January 26, 1842. To ANsoN JoNEs 1 Executive Department, City of Austin, February 5, 1842. To the Honorable Anson Jones, Secretary of State, Sir- You have leave to absent yourself from Austin until such time as you can arrange your private affairs, so as to give your attention to the duties of your office. Sam Houston. 1 Executive Record Boole, No. 40, p. 42, Texas State Library. TO JOSEPH W APLES 1 Executive Department, City of Austin, February 5h., 1842. To Joseph Waples, 2 Esq. · Sir,- Doctor Jones, Secretary of State, being about to leave the Seat of Government for some time, you will, in his absence, take charge of the Department of State as Acting Secretary. Sam Houston. tExecutive Record Boole, No. 40, p. 42, Texas State Library. 2J oseph Waples was born in Delaware in 1798. He emigra~ed from his native state to Texas in 1838. He had received a good education, and was expert in clerical work, but the first job he held in Te~as (so far as we find recorded) was the supervision of removing the a~chives from H~uS t on to Austin in 1839 a service of fifteen days, for which h~ was plmdk $h~O ' 'b ) H s soon given a c er s 1p (Public Debt Pape1·s, Texas State L1 rary . e wa
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