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having made application for the land granted by the State on said five miles, you are requested to proceed at once and make the necessary examination and report under oath the condition and affairs of said Company and road, in order that I may act in regard to said application. Sam Houston. 1 Exec.utive Reco1·ds, 1859-1861, p. 197, Texas State Library. To S. M. SWENSON 1 Executive Department, Austin, Texas, July 13th, 1860. :M:r. S. M. Swenson. Sir: Will you be so kind as to furnish me with a statement of the proposition made to you in relation to the sale of the 5 per cent U. S·. Bonds. What they were then selling for in New York, and the highest price they have commanded. Were you at the time willing to take them at par and pay in Gold and Silver, at short payments as the Treasury might need funds? What would have been the loss on $305,000 of said Bonds between the sale of the Bonds at $99% with the expense of sale in New York, and the highest price at which they sold in your market? Truly Thine Sam Houston. 1 The original document is in the possession of Mr. E. P. Swenson, New York City, through whose courtesy The University of Texas Library has a photostatic copy. Mr. E. P. Swenson is the only living son of S. M. Swenson. See, also, Executive Records, 1859-1861, p. 198, Texas State Library. See, also, Houston to Swenson, .June 4, 1860. SYNOPSIS OF A SPEECH AT HOUSTON, JULY 13, 1860 1 The friends of General Houston held a meeting last night in front of the Kelly House, and were addressed from the balcony by the General and oth~rs. After marching through the streets, to the sound of gay music, under the direction of Colonel Daly, who had been appointed marshal, they assembled to the number of near a thousand, in front of the hotel, with a fair portion of ladies on the balcony, and the Governor appeared and made a brief speech. He remarked in the outset that it was not his intention to make a speech of any considerable length-that he had been traveling
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