WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1842
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A PROCLAMATION CONCERNING THE APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSIONERS TO TREAT WITH THE lNDIANS 1
Executive Department, City of Houston, August 25th, 1842. To all to whom these presents shall come or may concern-Greet- ing: Be it known that I, Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas, reposing special trust and full confidence in the prudence, energy, fidelity, abi1ity ·and patriotism of Isaac S. Tower, Esquire, and Doctor Barzilla Cottle, a commissioner to treat with the Apache and other tribes of the Indians located in the Northwestern part of Texas, with joint and single au- thority with Doctor Barzilla Cottle-in all things requiring said commissioner or his associate, to use his discretion and best efforts in procuring interviews and concluding a treaty of peace, amity and commerce with said tribe or tribes: and in all things to act and proceed as he may be especially ordered by the Execu- tive or Department of War, or as in his prudence and judgment may at the time dictate. Done at the City of Houston, on the day and year above writ- ten: in testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the Republic. [SEAL] Sam Houston. 1 P1·oclamatiorzs of the Presidents, Re7mbl·ic of Texas; also Documents Under the Great Sectl, Executfoe Reco1·d Book, No. 37, 94; and ExccHtive Record Book, No. 40, p. 140, Texas State Library. THE REPLY TO A MEMORANDUM MADE BY M. P. WOODHOUSE AUGUST, 1842 [No day date given] 1 If Mr. Borden says that people will prefer to pay silver to the notes, I say well ! Let this be done, and then the cash or specie can be paid out of them, & this will at once bring them to par- The evils now complained of will all be at an end and things will go on well- Mr. Borden must go down to the selling price of the money- Neither the President, nor anyone can vary the law. The standard is not what merchants may say, they will but take what the money sells for-Mr. Borden now finds that if he had gone at once to the rates of sale there would have been no trouble. All that he has to do is to execute the laws. He shall not advance in the price of th~ money in anticipation of what it will rise to. He must take it at the market value. He
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