WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 18!i2
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The arms should be in good order ; and if it is needful to march, they should be kept in ·prime order. If the enemy intend an invasion we will soon have further in- formation, and can act advisedly and with efficiency. If it has been a predatory party, as I believe it to be, they are by this time on the other side of the Nueces.
Sam Houston
1 Executive Record Book, No. 40, p. 45, Texas State Library. 3 Alden A. M. Jackson was appointed collector of customs at the port of Galveston on November 23, 1839. See E. W. Winkler {ed.), Secret Jo1m1als of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 1886-1845, 141, 147. Colonel Jackson was a friend and ardent supporter of President Lamar. See Lamar Papers, III, 124, 482, 506, 511, 547, 562, 567.
To COUNT LEON DE SERIN AND OTHERS 1
Galveston, March 9th, 1842.
To Count Leon de Serin, Mr. W. Bollaert, and Others: Gentlemen:- I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, this day of your memorial of the 21st ultimo, praying me to ex- tend in your case, the provisions of the act donating lands to emigrants. Although yours may be a case of peculiar hardship, I am sorry that it is not within my power to grant the relief prayed for. By the provisions of the "act granting land to emigrants," aP- proved 4th January, 1841, six hundred and forty acres of land were donated to each head of a family and three hundred and twenty acres to each single man over the age of seventeen, who· should arrive previous to the first day of January, 1842. You having arrived subsequently to the 1st of January, 1842, within the limits of the Republic, are, consequently deprived of any benefit accruing from said act; and the law having, as far as donation to emigrants is concerned, expired by limitation,- the Executive, being governed by the laws and the constitution, is deprived of all power in the premises. Sam Houston.
1 Exccutive Reco1·d Book, No. 40, pp. 45-46, Texas State Library.
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