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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1843
[SEAL] Done at the Town of Washington this twelfth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three, and of the Independence of the Republic the seventh. SAM HOUSTON [Rubric] By the President Anson Jones [Rubric], Secretary of State. 1 The National Archives, Washington, D. C., Records of the Department of State, Texas, Archives of United States Legation, 1836-1844.
To THE TEXAS SENATE 1
Executive Department, Washington, January 13, 1843.
(Secret) To the Honorable the Senate:
In compliance with a resolution of your Honorable Body of this date, I herewith respectfully submit the treaty 2 of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, concluded at Washington on the 30th of July last, between the United States and Texas, for their further consideration and action. Sam Houston. 1 "Messages of the Presidents," Congressional Papers, Seventh Congress; also Executive Record Book, No. 40, 207, Texas State Library. E. W. Winkler (ed.), Secret Journals of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 1896-1845, p. 276. ~The treaty is not now enclosed with the "message" to be found in the Congressional Pape,·s; but copies of it may be found in Record Book, No. 48; also Record Books No. 97, and No. 98, Texas State Library. To THE TEXAS SENATE 1 Executive Department, Washington, January 13, 1843. To the Honorable, the Senate: In answer to a resolution of your Honorable Body, relative to the propositions made to the Executive for the removal of the offices of the government, &c., by W. Y. McFarland, it is proper to state that he proposed, on the part of the proprietors of the town of Washington, that they would remove the papers and
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