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Mrs. Mitchel and Nannie. Now, will you write to me, my friend? Thine truly Sam Houston. To Colonel B. F. Mitchel. P.S. I am not sure that I can be at Huntsville in July. H. 1 Govenz.o,·s' Lette,·s; also Execzitfoe Records, 1859-1861, p. 170, Texas State Library. To WILLIAM R. REAGAN 1 [May 30, 1860] [Declining to intervene in commuting penalty against a con- victed criminal.] 1 Executive Rec.a,·ds, 1859-1861, p. 173, Texas State Library. William Reason Reagan, son of Timothy Reagan, was born in Sevier County, Tennessee, on March 17, 1830. He came to Texas in 1849 and made his first stop in Red River County. There he attended McKinney College, and after leaving tha.t institution, taught school for two years at Marlin, Falls County. During his spare time he read law, and was admitted to the bar in 1857. He set up his office and practiced law at Marlin until 1874, when he removed ·to Reagan, a smal) town named for him. In 1880, he moved to Georgetown, where he lived until his death. During the Civil War he first enlisted in the 13th Cavalry, but, in 1862, was appointed enrolling officer for Falls County. While the war was in progress, he was entrusted with an important mission to Richmond, Vir- ginia, in the interest of the Postal service of the Confederacy. In 1865, he was elected judge of Falls County. In 1856 he married Elizabeth Stan- ley, who died in 1868; in 1873, he married Sarah M. Harper, of Robert- son County. See Biog,·aphical Encycloiieclia of Texas (1880), p. 226.
To CLEMENT R. J OHNS 1 Executive Department, Austin, May 30, 1860.
Hon. C. R. Johns, Comptroller Sir: You will, in the payment of claims for Rio Grande service, :first exhaust the appropriation of the ten and forty thousand dollars for that purpose. You will then in payment of these claims for Rio Grande, as well as for frontier defense pursue the follow- ing course : , If there be money in the Treasury to meet the appropriation of $300,000 for frontier defense, without causing a deficit in the current expenses of Government as provided in the Act of Febru- ary 3rd, 1860, you will draw warrants upon the Treasury to such
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