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of surplus in the Treasury, persons naturally suppose they will be paid. If not paid these claims must depreciate in the hands of the holders to the detriment of the character of the State. I have no desire to lend myself to a deception. I also said in my letter of the 30th ult., "The Executive would respectfully ask at the hands of the Comptroller, a statement of the revenue and ex- penditures of the next two years, that he may know upon what the Comptroller bases his conclusion .that the contingent ap- propriation of $300,000 may be paid without causing a deficit." This information has not been furnished me. I still desire it, and also wish to know the amount of Treasury warrants you will be able to take up on the 1st of July? In my opinion scrip bearing ten per cent interest, to be paid, by appropriation of the next Legislature, will command and main- tain a better price in the market than Treasury warrants, which may or may not be paid prior to that time. If certain to run on interest for two years, persons will take them for investments; if purchased in the belief that they will be called in within a few months, the holders when disappointed, will desire to get rid of them, even at a loss, at the same time expressing a distrust as to their character. Sam Houston [Rubric] [Endorsed]: No. 6003 From Genl. Sam Houston Received and Answered, June 28th 1860. [Second endorsement in pencil] : No. 1 Copied Read and Answered June 26th, 1860. 1 Comptr.ollers' Letters; also Executive Records, 1859-1861, p. 184, Texas State Library.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE FORD. C. BURLESON 1 Executive Department, Austin, June 27, 1860.
Mr. D. C. Burleson, on account of sickness in his family, has my leave of absence from duty from this date, and Lieutenant Washington Hammett is substituted in his stead as bearer of dispatches. Sam Houston. [On the same date, and same source, a similar document reads] :
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