WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1860
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As soon as you have reached and joined Captain Dalrymple's command, you will execute your bond, with securities, to the State, in the sum of Ten Thousand dollars for the performance of your duties as commissary and Quarter Master. You will have the same properly authenticated before a Notary Public, and transmit it to this Department, as required by law. Sam Houston.
1 Executive Reco1·ds, 1859-1861, p. 31, Texas State Library.
To THE LEGISLATURE 1 Executive Department, February 8th, 1860.
Gentlemen of the Senate, ancl of the Home of Representatives: Believing that a sense of duty would impel me prior to the adjournment of your honorable body, to call your attention to the condition of the treasury, I addressed a note, on the 30th ult., to Major C. R. Johns, Comptroller of the Treasury, whose reply is herewith submitted [Omitted by the editors]. It will thus be seen that there was, on the first day of February last, in the Treasury $143,273.72 less than the amount already appropriated. To this is to be added the additional appropriations made by the present Legislature, not reported by the Comptroller, say $83,000.00. Of the $382,818.14 in the Treasury, $122,682.59 is set apart for the payment of our public debt, and $73,120.67 for river appropriations, and $50,000 due on appropriations heretofore made. These appropriations being pledged for a specific purpose, amounting to $245,803.26, they should remain in the Treasury. Deducting these from the balance on hand February 1st, 1860, there was really subject to appropriation $137,014.88. There had already been paid out on the 1st of February $163,818.14 or $27,- 293.26 more than was really subject to appropriation, which latter amount was taken from the appropriated funds. There remained in the Treasury at that date $219,000.00, against which stands balance of appropriation for contingent expenses and per diem of Legislature ·------------ ____________________ ---------------,-------·----- ___ 63,309.02 Expenses of Government for month of January____________ 30,000.00 Amount set apart for public debt_ __________________________________ 122,682.59 Amount undrawn on river appropriation....-------------- 73,120.67 Amount undrawn of $74,000 appropriated to frontier defense --------------------------------- + ______ 46,470.46
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