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country is unable to meet them. Unless our appropriafions are curtailed and our resources husbanded, our money, now daily depreciating, from the fact of such large appropriations by the .present Congress, will presently become worthless. Sam Houston. 1 "Messages of the Presidents," Congressional Pa71crR, Eighth Congress; also, Exec11tive Reco?'Cl Book, No. 40, pp. 316-317, Texas State Library. Jounwls of the Sena.te of the Re7niblic of Texas, 8th Cong., 1st Sess., pp. 187-188, also 197-198. 2 When, on January 29, 1844, this message was read for the second time and the vote taken on the bill, it was passed over the President's veto. To THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1 Executive Department, Washington, January 27, 1844. To the Honorable, the House of Representatives: In reply to a resolution of the House of Representatives adopted on the 26th instant, 1·elative to any disposition of the Cherokee lands, or any portion thereof, by sale, &c., the President has the pleasure to assure them that no authority by him has ever been given for the sale, hypothecation, or other disposition of any portion of the said territory, except certain authority given to Mr. Alexander Bourgeois (d'Orvanne) 2 in the spring of 1842, which said authority is fully cancelled by noncompliance with its terms; and the Executive reserved to himself in the event of the negotia- tion of the loan by this gentleman, the right to approve or reject it. Sam Houston. 1 "Messages of the Presidents," Congressional Papers, Eighth Congress; also Executive Record Book, No. 40, p. 317, Texas State Library. 2 See Letter of Instruction to Anson Jones, Commissioner, to negotiate a $1,000,000 Loan, June 10, 1842. TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1 Executive Department, Washington, January 27th, 1844. To the Honorable, the House of Representatives: The Executive regrets to find himself under the necessity of withholding his assent from the bill "for the relief of William G. Cooke, late Acting Quartermaster General." The reasons which impel him to do so, are, . as he conceives, of the most forcible character.
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