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directed to abstain from all acts and things calculated to obstruct lawful commerce with the ports of Mexico aboYe specified. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the Republic to be affixed. Done at the City of Houston the 12th day of September, A. D. 1842, and of the Independence of Texas the Seventh. [SEAL] Sam Houston. 1 P1·oclcrnwtions of the Presidents, Republic of Texas; Executive Record Book, No. 40, pp. 16-17; also lvlille1· Pa1;ers, Texas State Library. E. W. Moore, To the Peovle of Texas, 96. TO ANDRE BIENVENU ROMAN, SEPTEMBER 12, 1842 1 Sam Houston, in the name and by the authority of the Republic of Texas, to His Excellency A. B. Roman/ Governor of the State of Louisiana, of the United States of America; Greeting: By virtue of a communication received from E. W. Moore,3 Esquire, Commanding the Texas Navy, under date of the 7th in- stant, I am placed in possession of a correspondence between your Excellency and himself, relative to certain individuals, ref- ugees from justice, who are charged as mutineers 4 on board the schooner San Antonio, a Texian vessel during the month of Feb- ruary last, then in the Port of New Orleans. The names of the individuals are Seymour Oswald, T. D. Shep- herd, J. Allen, William Barrington, James Hudgeons, William Simpson, Edward Keener, Benjamin Pompilly and Edward Wil- liams, who are now held as prisoners in the State of Louisiana. Your Excellency is hereby requested (and a respectful demand is made) to deliver to Commodore E. W. Moore the above named men, and all who may be implicated in order that they may be dealt with in accordance with the laws which they are charged to have so grossly violated. Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the Republic at the City of Houston, the 12th day of September, A. D. 1842, and of the independence of the Republic the Seventh. 1 G. P. Garrison (ed.), Diplomatic Corresvondence of the Republic of Texas, II, 101-102. 2 Andre Bienvenu Roman (March 5, 1795-January 26, 1866) Governor of Louisiana, founder of Jefferson College, father of the movement to drain swamp lands about New Orleans, and public benefactor in various depart- ments. See the Nat-ional Encyclopaedia. X, 76, fot· brief biographical sketch. 3 E. W. Moore. See Houston to Commodore E. W. Moore, l\Iarch 11, 1842. 4 See The Qnm·terly, Texas State Historical Association, XIII, 85-127.
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