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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1860
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comfort. I wish to share in the hardships of the people of the frontier who have experienced so .many hardships. Thine Truly, Sam Houston. [Endorsed] : Letter to George W. Hagler. Frontier Matters. January 24, 1860. I 1 Governo1·s' Lette,·s, Texas State Library. The muster roll of Captain Hamner's Ranging Company shows that George W. Hagler was a member of it. This rnuste1; roll is in the Texas State Library. To WILLIAM c. DALRYMPLE 1 Executive Department, January 24, 1860. Captain W. C. Dalrymple, Commanding Company Sir: Captain [J. M. W.] Hall intimates that possibly that you may not have understood my orders, with regard to the march- ing of your men. My orders were that you should proceed with as little delay as possible to the station assigned to you with the main body of your men, leaving as few as possible behind to follow you, with as much dispatch as possible, and subject to your own orders. You may find that the state of the frontier requires that you should make one or more of your stations in Clay, which you will proceed to do, at least five or ten miles beyond the settlements. In the stationing and the disposition of your men, you will so arrange it as to give the greatest amount of protection to the frontier inhabitants and should you deem it necessary, you will extend your lines of operations further West and contract them from the East. Sam Houston. 1 Executive Reco1·ds, 1859-1861, p. 29, Texas State Library. For Dal- rymple, see Houston to Dalrymple, January 5, 1860; and for Hall, see Hous- ton to J. M. Hall, January 19, 1860, both documents in this volume.
To THE DIRECTORS OF THE PENITENTIARY 1
Executive Department, Jany. 24, 1860.
To the Directors of the Penitentiary: Gentlemen: 1st-Make a thorough examination into the financial condition of the Institution, in which you will require of the late incumbent, John S. Besser, 2 to set forth in a clear statement the assets now in his hands, specifying in what they
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