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Should you regard it as a matter of interest to the State, you have authority to transport the whole, or so much of it as you may think proper to Fort Mason for disposal. You will use all dispatch and economy in carrying out this order and report the same to this Department. Your compensa- tion will be five dollars per day while in the execution of this order. You will receipt to the officer in command of this De- tachment. Sam Houston. 1 Executivc Records, 1859-1861, pp. 180, 181, Texas State Library. Dr. Charles W. Lewis was a native of Virginia. He came to Texas in 1852 and settled at Georgetown, Williamson County. Soon after arrival in Texas he joined· a ranger force to protect the frontier, but his greatest service was as a physician among the frontier people. He died at Georgetown, June 7, 1869, in the fiftieth year of his age. A wife and adopted son survived him. See George Plunkett Red, The Medicine Man in Texas, 333-334.
To WILLIAM H. RussEL 1 Executive Department, Austin, June 25, 1860.
Major William H. Russel, Commissioner of the Boundary Survey. Sir: Your various communications have reached me and I regret to say that they are very unsatisfactory. In the first place, the different members of the commission were appointed by me, as the law requires, to act as a joint Board.in conjunction with the Board of the 1)nited States. Special concert of action and full cooperation upon the part of our commission, and such was fully expected of you. Bot such, I find, is not the case; and instead of harmony and joint action, discord and petty jealousy alone seem to prevail to the injury and detriment of the State. My orders to Captain Chapman were to "take charge of the Quarter Master's Department of the Commission." In the face of this order you decline handing over the property of the State upon the ground that the order is not special. My order to Captain Chapman was "to take charge of the Department of the Commis- sion," and it was special, from the fact that he could not take charge of it 'until you had turned it over to him, and your duty was to do so and to take his receipts for your own indemnification. My orders to Captain Chapman of the 4th of May were that he should join you and Major Timmons, and that the three, Com- missioner, Surveyor, and Secretary, should act as a joint Board, as contemplated by law, in conjunction with the board of the
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