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WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1843
you my confidence, my regard, and my constant solicitude for your success. If you should have the good fortune to find employment in the service of His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of All the Russias I entertain no doubt that your.loyalty, your chivalry, and your integrity of character will secure to you his imperial con- sideration. And that such may be the result, permit me to assure you, will be in unison with my friendly wishes. Sam Houston 1 Executive Reco1·d Book, No. 40, p. 195, Texas State Library. 2 William C. Brashear was nominated by Houston for the position of lieutenant in the Texas Navy, July 19, 1843, the nomination being confirmed on the same day. See E. W. Winkler (ed.), Secret Jom-11als of the Senate, Republfo of Texas, 1886-1845, 226-227. Brashear commanded the Zavala. See Jim Dan Hill, The Texas Navy, 160.
TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1 Executive Department, Washington, January 7h., 1843 .
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To the Honorable, the House of Representatives: Herewith, in pursuance of a resolution of your Honorable Body, of the 5th Instant, I have the pleasure to transmit a statement of goods and government stores handed over in February, 1842, by the late Acting Quarter Master General,2 to the War Depart- ment, the amount sold, the amount remaining on hand in April last, &c., together with the report of Colonel Jacob Snively 3 in reference thereto, and the cause and manner of their disposition. Also, a statement from the Treasury Department, exhibiting the items for which drafts have been made upon the appropriation of last year for the protection of the frontier. It will be perceived, from the report of Colonel Snively that the articles received from Acting Quarter Master General Cazneau were in a perishable and greatly damaged condition, arising, as reported, from neglect and want of care on the part of those in whose charge they had been previously placed. They consisted principally of fragments, remnants and the refuse of supplies which remained after the outfit of the Santa Fe expedi- tion and the supplying of such parties as, at various times, were fitted out for Indian excursions from the City of Austin. The refuse which remained was injured from the depredations of bugs, worms and rats, so as to render them valueless for the
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