. WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1860
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These arms are the property of the Government, and no other party can claim owne-rship in or to them. Upon the delivery of all the arms the bond will be cancelled. Sam Houston.
1 Executive Rec.ords, 1859-1861, p. 135, Texas State Library.
TO WILLIAM S. HOTCHKISS 1 Executive Department, Austin, April 25, 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 Railroad Company for four hun- dred sections of land to which said Company is entitled by virtue of completion of the first section of Twenty-five miles of its road, And Whereas, the State Engineer has reported under oath, that the said twenty-five miles upon which this application is made, is entirely completed and put in running order, and that the same has been constituted according to the provision 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 four hundred sections of land, in land scrip of six hundred and forty acres each. Sam Houston.
1 Execi,tive Records, 1859-1861, p. 137, Texas State Library.
To MIDDLETON T. JOHNSON 1
Executive Department, Austin, Texas, April 23, 1860.
Colonel M. T. Johnson, Belknap Dear Sir, As the appropriation for frontier defence is small and rapidly being diminished, you will be careful to use every · economy in your purchases, and scale your supplies down as much as possible to actual necessities. In purchasing your s_upplies you will make your requisition in writing as articles purchased by Quarter Masters without such written requisitions from you will not be recognized or paid for.
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