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will pay no attention to any legal process which is issued by any one. As an officer he only knows the Secretary of the Treasury & the President, & to no others will he pay any attention. He had no reason to advance the price of money. The money would this day have been at par if he had at once obeyed the law, and one third more would have been consumed- The interest, and power now employed to keep it down would have been exerted to pu,t it up and keep it steady- It must be done! If an officer takes the money at a higher rate than what it is actually passing and worth in the market, the question will arise in admitting his accounts whether or not the difference between the rate at which it is passing, or worth in the market, will not be a loss to the collector of the revenue. The Attorney General decided the law constitutional, and he is the legal adviser of the President. Therefore, the courts have no power to interfere in these matters. Sam Houston. 1 Comptrolle1-'s Lette1·s, Texas State Library. The memorandum to which the above was attached is also found in the Com7>t1·oller's Lette1·s. No day date is given.
SEPTEMBER, 1842
To JOHN HALL 1 Executive Department, City of Houston, September 1, 1842. To John Hall,2 Esquire: Sir - You are hereby authorized and directed to assume and discharge, according to law, the duties pertaining to the Bureau of the General Post Office of the Republic, as Chief and Assistant Clerk thereof. You will, of course, relinquish to the Chief Clerk of the Department of State, your present place and duties. -Sam Houston. 1 Executive Record Book, No. 40, p. 141, Texas State Library. 2 John Hall. The Permanent Council appointed John Rice Jones to act as Postmaster General, and the Consultation confirmed the appointment in November, 1835. Jones continued in this office until Houston's election to the Presidency in 1836, when he was succeeded by Robert Barr. Barr
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