WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 184,2
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B. Owen Payn, Captain of Ordnance: Charles H. Raymond, Secretary of Legation to the United States: Lochlan MacIntosh Rate, Consul General of Texas for Great Britain: Lewis J. Herkenrath, Consul at Amsterdam, Netherlands: William Bryan, Consul at New Orleans, United States: Nathaniel Amory, Consul at Boston, United States: William B. Hamilton, Consul at Richmond, Virginia, U. States: Thomas H. Airey, Consul at Natchitoches, Louisiana, U. States: Wyatt M. Gaffey, Notary Public for Jefferson County: Daniel Montague, Notary Public for Fannin County: Nathan Cordra, Notary Public for Jefferson County.
Sam Houston.
1 Executive Reco1·d Book, No. 40, p. 172, Texas State Libra1,y. E. W. Winkler (ed.), Secret Journals of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 1886-1845, 231-232.
To THE TEXAS SENATE 1
Executive Department, Washington, December 14h., 1842. To the Honorable, The Senate : The resolution of your Honorable Body of yesterday's date, requesting the Executive to lay before the Senate as soon as practicable any and all communications which he may have received from the Governor, or other authorities of Yucatan, has been received: and in compliance therewith the communications referred to are submitted with great pleasure- both in the originals and translations, as far as they have been translated. That marked No. 1, and addressed to the Executive, is the only one he himself has ever received. It will be perceived it amounts simply to a notification to the Executive of this government that the government of Yucatan had no further occasion for our assistance at that time, and that they would not have for eight months. The other letters are addressed to the Secretary of State; to whose Department the Senate is respectfully requested to direct their return, inasmuch as copies could not he conveniently pre- pared. Since the date· of these communications, the Executive has re- ceived no further intelligence from that quarter except through
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