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WRITINGS OF SAl\·I HOUSTON, 1842
(ed.), Di]Jloma.tic Co1·1·espondence of the Re1niblic of Texas, III, 1098, 1122, 1476, 1528.
AN ELECTION PROCLAMATION 1
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, satisfactory evidence has been received by the Execu- tive, that the office of Senator of the Senatorial District, composed of the Counties of Bastrop, Fayette, Gonzales and Travis, is vacant by the resignation of the Hon. James Webb ; 2 Therefore be it known, that I Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas, by virtue of the authority vested in me by law, do, by these presents, order and direct, that an election for Senator to fill the said vacancy, be held in the said counties of Bastrop, Fayette, Gonzales and Travis, on Saturday the 17th December instant; and it is further ordered, that the Chief Justices of the aforenamed counties give notice of said election, and have the same conducted according to the law regulating elections, and that the Chief Justices of the Counties of Fayette, Gonzales, and Travis make due returns of said election, in their respective counties, to the Chief Justice of the County of Bastrop, who will give to the member elect the proper certificate of his election. Given under my hand, and the Great Seal of the Republic at the Town of Washington the 6th day of December A. D. 1842, and of the Independence of T'exas the Seventh. . By the President Sam Houston G. W. Terrell,3 Attorney General & Acting Secretary of State. 1 Proclamations of the P,·esidents, Republic of Texas; Docmnents under the Great Seal, Record Book, No. 37, p. 137, Texas State Library.
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2 See Houston to Charles Mason, December 1, 1842. 3 See Houston to George W. Terrell, May 16, 1842.
To ASHBEL SMITH 1
Washington, 9th Deer 1842 My Dear Sir, I have the pleasure to acknowledge your two favors, at different times. They were very satisfactory to me, for various reasons. You were rather "tight" on the Earl, about the course of England in relation to the neutrality of England
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