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far as in your power, cultivate their friendship. You will in all things be governed by law. Sam Houston 1 Exec11tive Rec.orcl Book, No. 40, p. 281, Texas State Library. In the Court of Claims files, Texas State Library, service certificates and affidavits, make clear that Joseph Walker was a private in Captain Squire Brown's company in Major L. Mabbit's regiment, in the fight with the Indians at Kickapoo Village near the Neches River in 1838, and that he served under General Rusk's command in the Cherokee ,var of 1839. Evidence also shows that he should have had pay not only for personal service, but for a fine mule worth ~125 that was lost in the Kickapoo fight. He asked only $60 for the mule. His claims were filed, June 30, 1858. To THE TEXAS SENATE 1 Executive Department, Washington, December 20, 1843. To the Honorable, the Senate: In compliance with a resolution 2 of your Honorable Body, I herewith transmit a statement from the proper Department, in relation to claims for mail transportation in the years 1841 and 1842. Sam Houston. 1 "Messages of the Presidents," Congressionnl Pa])e1·s, 8th Congress; also Executive Record Book, No. 40, p. 287, Texas State Library. 2 See Joiu-nals of the Senate of the Republic of Texas, Eighth Congress, first session, p. 13. To THE TEXAS SENATE 1 Executive Department, Washington, December 20, 1843. To the Honorable Senate : T'he President, at the earliest moment possible, has the honor to respond to your preamble and resolution 2 of the 18th instant. He regrets that their extraordinary character will require a reply so much out of the ordinary routine of his executive duties. He has ever sought to extend to each coordinate branch of the govern- ment the greatest comity of intercourse. On the present occasion he will not depart from that rule; but it is his duty, and he feels constrained to repel all encroachments on his constitutional privi- leges. If the terms of the constitution were vague and indefinite in prescribing the appropriate spheres of each department of the
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