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doing, nor will I yet relinquish the cherished hope for your success. Sam Houston.
1 Executive Records, 1859-1861, pp. 182, 183, Texas State Library.
TO CLEMENT R. JOHNS 1 Executive Department, Austin, June 26, 1860.
Honorable C. R. Johns, Comptroller. Sir: It having been falsely represented upon Captain John Littleton's pay roll, that Mr. James M. Bennett; who was elected 3rd lieutenant of his company upon the 1st of February, resigned his commission as such on the fourteenth day of the same month; and Mr. Bennett having filed his protest against the payment of Mr. Pugh, you will withhold the amount from him until the facts in the case are made known. The accompanying papers will throw some light upon the mat- ter, and I have also written to Captain Littleton for the facts in the case, and so soon as they are received, I will see you on the subject matter. Sam Houston. 1 Exec::rttive Reconls, 1859-1861, p. 183; also Co1npt1·ollers' Letters, Texas State Library.
To CLEMENT R. JoHNs 1 Executive Department, Austin, June 27, 1860.
Hon. C.R. Johns, Comptroller, Sir: In my letter to you of May 20th 1860, I said, "Should it be your opinion that the appropriation cannot be drawn without causing a deficit in the current expenses of the Government for the next two years, you will then issue scrip for these claims to the amount of $200,000, whereupon I will pursue the course indicated in my letter of yesterday. This relieves you of every responsibility. I am willing to assume it myself, so that these claims may be paid at once, as contemplated by law." These warrants have been issued with the understanding that they would be taken up on the first of July, as contemplated by law. Unless they can be so taken up, no more should be issued, for the appropriation being restricted by a proviso to the amount
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