WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1843
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I hope you will find it convenient for Mr. Torrey!? to fill the bill at sixty days. If he cannot fill the bill, you will do the best you can, so as to procure the articles. When they are procured, you will have them conveyed to this place, with all the despatch possible and by a safe conveyance. I look for the chiefs here in six or eight days, and I desire that on their arrival they should not be detained. Sam Houston. Bill which I wish Mr. Hoyle to have filled, at sixty days, by Mr. Torrey. If filled by him he may rely upon the future calls of the Bureau, so long as he will furni1,h Indian supplies on accommo- dating terms for the government on fair prices.
[Rubric] Washington, April 1, 1843
List of Articles for the Indians.
200 lbs. lead
50 yds shrouding, red and blue-good quality. 20 butcher knives, lignum vitae handles, with brass rivets. 20 Macinaw blankets, or 3 points-the best that can be obtained; green or red are best. 20 small hoes, for corn raising. 20 hatchets 4 doz. flashy red hdkfs. or shawls. 20 ps. calico Vermilion. Flashy beads Wide ferretting-various colors. 2 doz. combs. 2 doz. small shears. 7 doz. coarse needles - lbs flax thread 2 doz. calico shirts 8 doz. awls and handles (straight) 1 doz. burning glasses. 50 lbs. tobacco. 8 ps. inch, or half inch ribbon-red, blue, green, yellow and white. 1 Exec1ltive Record Book, No. 40, pp. 234-235, Texas State Library. Stephen Z. Hoyle was Secretary of the Senate during the Seventh Congress, and was private secretary of President Anson Jones, 1844-1846. See E. W.
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