WRITINGS OF SA~I HOUSTON, 1843
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To WILLIAM HENRY DAINGERFIELD 1 Executive Department, Washington, February 10, 1843 To Hon. W. H. Daingerfield: Sir In the discharge of duties assigned you at New Orleans, you will procure to be engraved and forwarded to the Treasury Department, as early as practicable, the amount of twenty four thousand dollars in change notes~ of the following denominations, viz: 12 1/2 cents; 25 cents; and 50 cents, eight thousand dollars.- You will adopt such devices for them as will make the notes neat and appropriate. The lettering, I suppose, should correspond with that of the Exchequer bills. I designed at one time to have a portion struck of the denom- ination of 75 cents. It will be unnecessary, and you will therefore procure the denominations above specified only. You will also procure and have conveyed to the Treasury De- partment all the plates which have been used in New Orleans, for striking money for Texas. It will secure us against fraud. Sam Houston. 1 Exec.utive Record Book, No. 40, pp. 216-217, Texas State Library. For note on William Henry Daingerfield see Houston to the Texas Senate, Jan- uary 29, 1842; also see Washington D. Miller to D~.ingerfield, February 10, 1843, in Hardin-Simmons University Library, Abilene, Texas.
TO ASA BRIGHAM, TREASURER 1
Feby. 10th, 1843
Major Brigham, Treasurer Will pay the above acct. of Thirty-two dollars & forty seven cents, and charge the same to the appropriation of last year, for frontier protection. Sam Houston. 1 Financial Pcive1·s, 1842-1843, Texas State Library. This draft was in payment of 764 pounds of beef at 4 ½ cents n pound.
TO ASA BRIGHAM, TREASURER 1
10th Feby, 1843. Major Asa Brigham, Treasurer, vVill pay the above acct of ($131.67) one hundred, and thirty-one Dollars & sixty seven cents, and charge the same to the appropriation of last year, for frontier protection. Sam Houston. 1 Fincmcial Pape1·s, 1842-1843, Texas State Library. This draft was drawn in payment of 2303 pounds of beef at 5 ¾ cents per pound.
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