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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1842
To MATTHEW P. WooDHOUsE 1 Executive Department, City of Houston, 19th August, 1842. M. P. Woodhouse, Esq. Sir,- You will assume and discharge the duties of "Secretary of the Treasury" until further orders. Sam Houston. 1 Executive Record Boole, No. 40, p. 138, T€xas State Library. In 1841, M. P. Woodhouse was Chief Clerk of the General Land Office. See Lamar Pave,·s, III, 591.
To GAIL BORDEN, JR. 1
City of Houston, August 20th, 1842.
To Gail Borden, Jr., Collector at Galveston: Sir- You are hereby authorized to receive from such persons as have goods stored in your possession, under the acts of Con- gress in force anterior to the passage of the act of July 23d., 1842, the amount of duties due from such persons, under the former laws-receiving the said duties in Exchequer bills at their par value. And I, Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas, do, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the constitution of the Republic, remit so much of the amount of duties which said persons would, by the operation of the said law, of 23rd July, have to pay over and above the amount due from them under the said former laws. This is done in consideration of the equitable claims which such persons have upon the Executive for the exercise of this constitu- tional prerogative. Sam Houston. 1 Executive Record Book, No. 40, p. 139, Texas State Library. Gail Borden, Jr. Se€ Houston's Synopsis of Naval Expense, April 30, 1838.
To MATTHEW P. WooDHOUSE 1
City of Houston, 24th August, 1842. To M. P. Woodhouse, Esq., Acting Secretary of the Treasury, &c. Sir- Two drafts, one for $1,163.66 cents, and another for $ 5,090.10 cents, both in favor of L. S. Hargous, Esquire, Ameri- can Consul at Vera Cruz, have been laid before me. I cannot describe my regret at not having it in my power to meet the demands. The government has .not one dollar of the
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