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them, or any of them into the port of Galveston, that the vessels may be secured to the Republic, and the culprit or culprits arraigned and punished by the sentence of a legal tribunal. The naval powers of Christendom will not permit such a :flagrant and unexampled outrage, by a commander of public vessels of war, upon the rights of his nation and upon his official oath and duty to pass unrebuked; for such would be to destroy all civil rule and establish a precedent which would jeopardize the commerce of the ocean and render encouragement and sanction to piracy. In testimony hereof, I hereunto set my name, and cause the Great Seal of the Republic to be affixed. Done at Washington, the 23rd day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three, and of the independence of the Republic the eighth. SAM HOUSTON. 1 Proclamations of the President.s, Republic of Texas; also in Exec11t.iv e Reco1·d Book, No. 48, pp. 68-71; Executive Record Book, No. 40, pp. 228-229; Docmnents 1tnde1· the Great Seal, Record Book, No. 87, pp. 171-172, Texas State Library. Congressional Globe, Appendix, 1853-1854, pp. 1081-1082. The Qua.1·terly, Texas State Historical Association, XII, 110-111. The Red- Lcinde1·, May 20, 1843; The Morning Sta1·, May 11, 1843; Telegraph and Texas Registe1·, May 17, 1843. E. W. Moore, To the People of Texas, 168- 170. To ASA BRIGHAM, TREASURER, MARCH 25, 1843 Republic of Texas To Sydnor & Street 1842 June 13 th To passage Sergt Thompson from Galveston to Houston and back to Galveston on Dr
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$192.06 Personally appeared Parke G. Street of the firm of "Sydnor & Street" and being duly [sworn] deposeth and saieth that the
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