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application. You had better apply to some member of Congress to assist you in obtaining the desired information. Sam Houston.
1 Governors' Lette1·s, 1860, Texas State Library.
To J. S. PETTus 1 Executive Department, Austin, February 28, 1860.
To His Excellency J. S. Pettus, Governor of Mississippi Sir: In replying to your letter of the 20th inst., just to hand, enclosing the resolution adopted by the Legislature of Mississippi, upon Federal relations, I will state that the Legislature of this State adjourned on the 13th, whereas your favor reached me this morning. I have the honor, however, to transmit herewith the message 2 I thought proper to communicate to the Legislature of Texas upon the same subject, from which you will ascertain my views. Sam Houston. 1 Governors' Letters; also Executive Records, 1859 to- 1861, Texas State Library. 2 See Houston to the Texas Legislature, January 21, 1860, in Volume VII, p. 429.
To CYRUS H. RANDOLPH 1 Executive Department, Austin, Feby. 29, 1860.
Hon. C. H. Randolph, State Treasurer Sir, By an act of the last Legislature, it is put within the power of the Governor, Comptroller, and Treasurer, to use the fund set apart for the payment of the Public Debt, to sustain the government, until the revenue comes in. From the statement made in your letter of the 15th inst. I infer that the larger portion of that amount has already been paid from the Treasury. Having never been consulted as provided for in the act, I am left to believe that the same course will be pursued with reference to the balance now in the Treasury. In my opinion, that money should have been applied to appro- priations according to their date, and to sustain the current expenses of the Government. The balance should be so applied now.
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