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who are capable of rendering efficient service to our common country. Sam Houston. tExecutivc Record Book, No. 40, pp. 86-87, Texas State Library. ~Albert Sidney Johnston. See Houston to Toby Brothers, November 19, 1836. A PROCLAMATION OF THE APPOINTMENT OF JAMES DAVIS AS ACTING ADJUTANT GENERAL 1 Executive Department, City of Houston, May 3d., 1842. To all to whom these presents shall come, or may concern, Greetings: Be it known that I, Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the same, reposing special trust and full confidence in the fidelity, honor, patriotism, capacity and valor of James Davis/ Esquire, do, by these present appoint him, the said James Davis, Esquire, Acting Adjutant General of the Army of Texas, hereby giving and granting him full power and authority to act, and in all things to be obeyed and respected as such. Given under my hand, at the City of Galveston, the 3d. day of May, in the year 1842, and of our independence the Seventh. Sam Houston. 1 Executive Record Book, No. 40, p. 86, Texas State Library. ~General James Davis served in the capacity of Adjutant General of the Texas Army from May 3, to July 28, 1842. During this service, July 7, 1842, he defeated the Mexicans under the cornmirnd of General Canales, at Lipantitlan in San Patricio County, south of the Nueces River. He served as representative in the Texas Congress in 1843-1844, and in 1845 was a member of the Constitutional Convention of that year.
To CAPTAIN EPHRAIM McLAIN 1 Executive Department, City of Houston, May 5, 1842.
To Captain Ephraim McLain : 2 Sir,- You will be subject to orders of Acting Adjutant Gen- eral James Davis, who has been appointed to the command of the South Western frontier. You will communicate to him all important intelligence, which may come to your knowledge; and if needful, you will furnish him [sic] to carry despatches. Sam Houston.
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