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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1860
· Ford, Brown, and Bourland and their companies. He accepted at the urgent solicitation of your Chief Clerk, and was recognized by you, and now you refuse to recognize the acts of the same pay master. If the appointment was necessary last winter, it ~urely is necessary now. Captain Swisher will proceed to pay off the troops, giving cer- tificates stating the amounts due them. If you persist in refusing lo do your duty, my only hope is that the Rangers who have served the Country will not be the sufferers. Having served your favorites, however, I suppose you care little for the rest. Sam Houston. 1 Comptrollers' Letters; also Exec.ntive Records, 1859-1861, p. 193, Texas State Library. J ohns's letter to which this is the reply may also be found among the Compt·rollers' Letters.
To CYRUS H. RANDOLPH.1 Executive Department, Austin, July 9, 1860.
Hon. C. H. Randolph, State Treasurer Sir, Allow me to call your attention to the following clause of the "Act authorizing interest upon unpaid Treasury War- rants." "That it should be the duty of the Treasurer on the first day of July A. D., 1860, and every six months thereafter, to advertise in three papers in different parts of the State, for the presentment of any such warrants as are mentioned in the first section of this act, in the order of their dates and numbers, and after the expira- tion of sixty days from such notice, [if] the said warrants are not presented, they shall cease to draw interest." There has been issued, per your report of July ·7th, 1860, $43,347.89 in Treasury Warrants. The holders of these have a right to expect that the Government will act in good faith and take up at least such portion, in Sixty days frum the 1st of July, 1860, as the condition of the Treasury will permit. The holders take it for granted that they are issued in accordance with the law and as the law requires advertisement on the 1st of July, it should be done. There is now in the Treasury on State account $62,610.35. This amount will be constantly increased by receipts from Taxes, and whatever amount can be paid, can as well be paid now as six months hence. I therefore, desire at yQur hands a statement of 1
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