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of the liabilities incurred by the detachment of spies under the command of Captain John C. Hays, operating during the past year upon our Southwestern frontier; also, an estimate of the amount required to support a company of spies or rangers upon that frontier for the ensuing hvelve months. Sam Houston 1 "Messages of the Presidents," Congressio1uil Papers, Eighth Congress; also Executive Record Book, No. 40, p. 279, Texas State Library. Journals of the House of Re1n·esentct.tii•es of the Re7)ublic of Texas, 8th Cong., 1st Sess., p. 37. 2 The "estimate" is no longer with the message in the Co11g1·essional Papers, nor was it printed in the "House Journal." To JAMES B. MILLER, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY 1 Executive Department, Washington, December 16th, 1843. To James B. Miller, Esq., Secretary of the Treasury, Sir-You are hereby authorized and empowered, in the name and on the part of the Government of the Republic of Texas, to make and execute to Gail Borden, Jr., Esquire, for himself and his sureties, as late Collector of Customs at the Port of Galveston, any bond or other proper instrument of indemnity against any suit or suits which have been, or hereafter may be instituted against the said Gail Borden, Jr., Esquire, late Collector as afore- Raid, or as Government agent, by H. H. Williams 2 & Company or any other person or persons whatsoever. In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand at the place, and on the day and year above mentioned. Sam Houston [Rubric] 1 Co1nptroller's Lette1·s; also Executive Record Bonk, No. 40, p. 280, Texas State Library. James B. Miller, see Houston to James B. Miller, May 3, 1843. 2 Henry H. Williams, the head of a mercantile company at Houston, was appointed by Houston, as consul at the Port o.f Baltimore, Maryland, April 25, 1838, the Senate confirming the appointment, May 2, 1838. See E. W. Winkler (ed.), Secret Jo1wnals of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 1886-1845, pp. 107-108.
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