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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1860
Dr. A. Smith Houston
[P.S]. Beware of the Fire eating Disunionists, no matter in what clothing they may be presented. Thine H.
1 Ashbel Smith Pa.pers, University of Texas Library.
To WILLIAM s. HoTCHK1ss 1 Executive Records, Austin, July 28, 1860.
To Hon. W. S. Hotchkiss, Commissioner of the Court of Claims Sir: Whereas, the application has been made by the President of the Texas and New Orleans Rail Road Company for Eighty Sections of land, to which the said Company is entitled by virtue of the completion of one section of five miles of its road. And whereas, the State Engineer has reported under oath, that the said five miles upon which this application is made, is entirely completed and put in running order, and that the same has been constructed according to the provisions of the Charter of said Company and also of the general laws of the State in force at this time regulating Railroad Companies, You are therefore, requested to issue to the said Company, its President, or other lawful officers, agent or attorney, the said Eighty Sections of land in land scrip of six hundred and forty acres each. Sam Houston.
1 Executive Records, 1859-1861, p. 203, Texas State Library.
To JOHN B. FL0Yn 1 Executive Department, Austin, July 28, 1860.
Hon. John B. Floyd, Secretary of War. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13th inst. addressed to Hon. Louis T. Wigfall, relative to the quota of arms now due to the State of Texas from the Federal Government. The Executive is anxious to get the arms to which the State is entitled, for the present year, as also to draw in advance for the quota of next year, and desires to know what equivalent in Whit- ney's U. S. Rifles, altered to Morse's plan, with attachments
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