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WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1843
PROCLAMATION OF THE TREATY OF AMITY, COMMERCE AND NAVI- GATION BETWEEN THE NETHERLANDS AND TEXAS, JANUARY 4, 1843 [ This document may be found in the following sources: Dip- lomatic Correspondence, Republic of Texas (MSS.), Texas State Library. Gammel, La:ws of Texas, II, 905-912. The original draft of this treaty of September 18, 1840, is written in English and Dutch in parallel columns with the autograph signatures of J. Hamilton and Verstolk van Soelen. The treaty was transmitted 1.Jy Hamilton to Lipscomb, December 3, 1840, in correspondence with Great Britain. There is also in the archives of the Texas State Library, an engrossed copy of the treaty sent by the Govern- ment of the Netherlands to that of Texas, at the time ratifications were exchanged. That copy is bound in velvet, and is signed by King William, the king's signature being attested by Van Soelen.]
TO THE TEXAS CONGRESSl
Executive Department, Washington, January 3, 1843. To the Honorable, the Senate and the House of Representatives: The Executive, in conformity with what he conceives to be his duty, at the very first moment of leisure, with health sufficient for the purpose, transmits such information, touching the present con- dition of the Navy as may be of some importance to the Honor- able Congress. It is needless to reiterate that the last cent of the appropriation placed at the disposition of the Executive for the support of the Navy, for the year 1842, has been issued to the proper officer; and that there is every reason to believe it has been expended; with what benefit to the country, the President does not pretend to say, and contents himself with merely submitting the fact. For the purpose of showing as far as practicable the actual condition of the Navy, Copies of letters~ are herewith laid before the Congress, marked 1 and 2, addressed to the Secretary of War and Marine, by Commodore E.W. Moore,3 under date of the 19th December, Ultimo, and by Lieutenant D. H. Crisp/ of the 21st of the same month. It ,vill be perceived that Commodore Moore is without funds. He has not accounted for the disbursement of the appropriation of twenty thousand dollars, made for the service of the past year.
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