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as I can, I will send you instructions as to other matters. Your duties and powers are clearly laid down in the "Code" from which I have quoted. Sam Houston. Directors &c &c &c Robertson, Walker, Roe, Huntsville, Texas. P.S.: The "Superintendent of the factory," is none other than the Underkeeper, see page 471, article 120; so the name will do no good. This contract was private, not official. Houston. Duties of the Superintendent of the Penitentiary, vide pages 467, 470 & 471, articles 104 to 117-Oldham & White's Digest. 1Exec1ttive Records, 1859-1861, p. 10, Texas State Library. E. W. CAVE TO KIT CARSON-BY ORDER OF THE G0VERN0R 1 Department of State, Austin, Texas, January 11, 1860. Colonel Kit Carson Dear Sir Accompanying this please find a certified copy of a Joint Resolution passed by the Legislature of Texas, appro- priating the Sum of Five Hundred Dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary to procure the restoration to his friends of the Boy William Hoster/ now in your charge. You will be kind enough to send the Boy mentioned by the regular mail Stage line to Care of Messrs Vance & Brother, San Antonio, to be forwarded to Care of Mr. Frank Stricklin,·Fred- ericksburg will be provided for. Your generous zeal in behalf of this youth will but add to the high estimation in which you are held by all Texians. Such prompitude in behalf of humanity will, I assure you, not be for- gotten by our people. E. W. Cave, Secretary of State. By order of the Governor. 1Executive Record, 1859-1861, p. 13, Texas State Lib1·ary. For sketch on E. W. Cave, see To Cave, December 27, 1859, in this volume. . Kit Carson (Christopher Carson) was born December 24, 1809, and died on May 23, 1868. He was a famous trapper, guide, Indian agent and soldier. He was born in Madison County, Kentucky, and died at Fort Lyon, Colorado. For a good biography see Dictionary of Ame1-ican Eriography, III, 530-532. . :?William Horster (also found spelled Hoster and Hoerster, the latter 15 probably the correct spelling) was, the nine-year-old son of H. Hoerster
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