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Should sickness, or any other cause, prevent the Commissioners, from acting jointly, they, or either of them, may act in all things, separately and singly, but ·not adversely. Sam Houston [Endorsed]_: No. 3. In Mr. Consul Kennedy's despatch marked "Separate" of May 15th 1843. 1 Executive Record Book, No. 40, pp. 229-231, Texas State Library. E. D. Adams (ed.), British Divlomatic Corres])onclence concerning the Revublic of Texas, 1898-1845, 189-191. E. W. Moore, To the Peovle of Texas, 143- 145. The Red-Lander, June 24, 1843; Telegraph and TM:as Register, June 14, 1843; Congressiona.l Globe, Appendix, 1853-1854, pp. 1081-1082. South- western Historical Quarte,·ly, XVI, 302-304. For Morgan see Houston to James Morgan, May 11, 1836; for Bryan, see Houston to the House of Representatives, January 27, 1842; for Smith, sec Houston to the Texas Senate, June 7, 1837; for Van Zandt, see Houston to the Texas Senate, July 20, 1842. 2 William Kennedy was at this time consul for Great Britain at the Port of Galveston. In 1841, he published, at London, a history of Texas in two volumes, entitled: Texas: The Rise, Progress and Prosvects of the Republic of Texas. See the introductory chapter of this work for the personal narrative of William Kennedy. ' A PROCLAMATION SUSPENDING EDWIN W. MOORE FROM ALL COMMAND IN THE TEXAS NAVY 1 PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS WHEREAS E. W. Moore, a post captain, commanding the navy of Texas, was, on the 29th October, 1842, by the Acting Secre- tary of War and Marine, under the direction of the President, ordered to leave the Port of New Orleans in the United States, and sail, with all the vessels under his command, to the port of Galveston in Texas: And whereas, the said orders were reiterated on the 5th and 16th November, 1842: And whereas, he, the said post captain, E. W. Moore, was ordered again, on the 2d December, 1842, to "proceed imme- diately and report to the Department in person"; And whereas, he was again, on the 2d January, 1843, ordered to act in conformity with previous orders, and, if practicable, report in person to the Department, and to "leave the Ship Austin and brig Wharton under the command of the senior officer present":
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