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the amount of interest warrants you will be able to pay in the next sixty days, and suggest that notice be given as required by law. A large number of men who have served the State are yet to be paid in Treasury warrants; their intei·ests demand that the warrants should be kept up, at least, to present standard. If $20,000 even is paid, it will show that the law is to be carried out and the public faith maintained. Being assured by the Comptroller that there would be a surplus in the Treasury to meet these warrants, I rely upon your prompt action in the matter. Sam Houston.
1 Executive Reco1·ds, 1859-1861, p. 195, Texas State Library.
To CLEMENT R. JoHNs 1 Executive Department, Austin, July 10, 1860.
Hon. C. lL Johns, Comptroller.. Sir: Your note of this date has been received. You inform me that Captain Fountain has requested you to issue warrants in which he is interested and that I have agreed to sign them. This is correct. In as much as you have paid Mr. S. C. Childress on account of Captain Tumlinson's men, on powers of attorney, several warrants in which he was interested, you will extend the same favor to Captain Fountain, issuing warrants to him and if they correspond to the correct pay rolls, I will countersign them. You wish to be informed whether I desire you to proceed to issue scrip for the payment of the Rangers. Such companies as you have commenced paying off, you will continue to pay off after you have been furnished with certified copies of the pay rolls, vouchers and accounts, and I will countersign the warrants if they are correct. Upon pay rolls upon which no payments have been made you will issue your warrant upon certificate of the pay master. Sam Houston.
1 Executive Records, 1859-1861, p. 197; also Comptrollel's' Lettol's, Texas State Library.
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