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other documents valuable to the history of Texas. After this fire, the office of Adjutant General was discontinued, but was reorganized in 1860. After the destruction of his documents and the discontinuance of his office, Gillett joined the ranger force and served with that organization for several years. When the Civil War broke out, he offered his services at the head of a company, but on account of advanced age, was rejected by the Confederate Government. He managed to get into the service, however, in 1864, by joining Captain Carrington's company as a private. After the war he moved from Austin to Lampasas, and died there in 1874. See Johnson- Barker, TexM and Texans, V, 2515; Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XXVIII, 311-312. To CLEMENT R. JoHNs 1 Executive Department, Austin, March 6, 1860. Hon. C. R. Johns, State Comptroller Sir, Will you be kind enough to furnish this Department with a certificate of the fact that the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colo- rado rail-road has been examined by the Engineer appointed for that purpose and that his reports are on file in your office. Sam Houston. 1 ExeC'Utive Reco1·ds, 1859-1861, p. 17, Texas State Library. To MESSRS. CLEMENT R. JOHNS, AND CYRUS H. RANDOLPH 1 Executive Department, Austin, March 6, 1860. Hon. C. R. Johns & C. H. Randolph Gentlemen: A joint resolution approved February 7, 1860, reads as follows: "The Governor, Comptroller, and Treasurer of the State be, and they· are hereby authorized and empowered to apply so much of the appropriation heretofore made for the public debt, as in their judgment will not be immediately needed on discharge of the same and has not been used, ·to the pay- ment of other claims of more immediate necessity." In my opinion the claim of Colonel Thomas Howard~for sup- plies furnished to Major Tobin's command on the Rio Grande is one of the claims of "greater emergency" contemplated by the act. Supplies furnished our troops involve an outlay of cash, and if possible should be paid for. Your concurrence in this matter is respectfully solicited. Sam Houston. 1 Exccutive Reco1·ds, 1859-1861, p. 17; Comptroller's Lettel's, 1860. There is a slight difference between these sources. The one to be found in Exec-
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