WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 184,3
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To AsA BRIGHAM, TREASURER 1
Executive Department Dr. 1843 October 9th To 1 lb. Sealing Wax________________________ $ 3.00 Approved Sam Houston The above is correct W. D. Miller, Private Secretary. Executive Department, Washington, Oct. 9th 1843. To Major A. Brigham, Treasurer, &c. To Charles Mariner, Sir - Pay the above amount of three dollars to Charles Mar- iner, out of the Contingent Fund in your hands to my credit, and retain this as a voucher. Sam Houston [Rubric]
1 Financial Papers, 1842-1843, Texas State Library.
To CHARLES B. YOUNG 1
Washington, October 16th 1843.
To Charles B. Young, Esq. My dear Sir -
Your letter under date of New Orleans, 25th ultimo, has just come to hand. I lose no time in replying though compelled to be very brief. You are under misapprehension as to the attention of the Sec- retary of the Treasury to your communication to him. His an- swer was duly despatched, as he informs me, and was possibly lost on the "Sarah Barnes" in the late wreck of that boat. Gen Thomas J. Green had no authority whatever to draw upon the Department for any purpose whatever. And, indeed, had he been so authorized, the draft could not have been met without violation of law on the part of the officer at the head of the Treas- ury Department, or an advance from his own pocket; for Con- gress, though aware of the capture of the said Gen. Thomas J. Green and his associates, made no appropriation or provision whatever for their relief. The government is therefore powerless as to the payment of the draft drawn upon it. I have no knowledge whatever of any such individual as Charles P. Green.
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