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J)ersons as may be necessary to collect the prisoners and conduct them to the treaty ground, by the time at whjch the contracting parties may arrive, is respectfully recommended.-It is also proper to suggest, that when the prisoners shall have been col- lected they should have comfortable clothing and blankets. With- out the necessary appropriation, this cannot be done, nor can the services of such persons as will be needful to carry out the objects of the government be procured unless sufficient means are placed within the control of the President to ensure a reasonable com- pensation. Sam Houston 1"Messages of the Presidents," Congressional Pape1·s, Seventh Congrerrs; also Exec,utive Record Book No. 40, p. 181, Texas State Library. Jo11nwls of the Senate of the Rept1blic of Texas, 1st Sess., 7th Cong., p. 46. The Red Lande,·, February 24, 1844. Telegravh and Texas Registe1· 1 June 7, 1844. The Moniing Sta,·, January 11, 1844. Journals of the Ho11se of Revresenta- tives of the Republic of Texas, 1st Sess., 7th Cong., pp. 116-117. T'o THE TEXAS SENATE 1 Executive Department, Washington, December 24, 1842. To the Honorable, the Senate: In reply to the resolution of your Honorable Body, of yester- day, the President has to state, owing to the archives being at Austin, no reference can be had to the papers of the General Land Office; and that it will not be in his power to furnish the Honorable Senate with a copy of his instructions to the com- missioner of the General Land Office, under which the Com- missioner of the General Land Office issued the order accompany- ing the resolution calling for the information. It will be observed that the order was issued during the last administration of the Government; nor was the present Executive apprised that such an order had been issued to the clerks or land <:ommissioners of the County of Bexar, until informed by the resolution in question. Sam Houston. 1"Messages of the Presidents," Congl'essional Pape,·s, Seventh Congress; .also Executive Recol'd Book, No. 40, pp. 181-182, Texas State Library. .!01tr11als of the Senate of the Re1ntblic of Texas, 1st Sess., 7th Cong., p. 49.
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