WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1860
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In view thereof I have authorized minute companies consist- ing of fifteen men officers and privates to be raised in each frontier county to be increased if emergency should require. These men with the other companies now in the field will make an aggregate of about 730 men now operating against the Indians. The whole amount of money in the Treasury subject to the frontier defense for the next two years is 91,537.37$. This will not furnish the regular companies with supplies. The troops called out by the Executive must be fed. For their pay they will have to look to the Legislature. Enclosed you will find my circular, a copy of which has been forwarded to the Chief Justice of each of the counties on the frontier. Sam Houston. 1 Executive Reco1·ds, 1859-1861, pp. 92-93, Texas State Library. A. G. Walker was born in Virginia in 1818, came to Texas in 1846, and settled at Birdville in Tarrant County. He was a surveyor, and represented his district in the State Senate for the third, seventh, and eighth legisla- tures. See Senate Journal, 8th Texas Legislature, p. 729; Members of the Legislature of the State of Texas, 1846-1939, pp. 10, 28, 33. 2 Dr. B. F. Barkley and his wife, Melinda, were both natives of Kentucky. They immigated to Texas in 1855, and settled in the region of the newly created county of Tarrant, known as Birdville, a region lying between Fort Worth and Dallas. Dr. Barkley lived in, and practiced medicine at Birdville until his death, December 25, 1882. His wife and seven children survived him. See Johnson-Barker, Texa.s and Texans, V, 2389.
To CYRUS H. RANDOLPH 1 Executive Department, Austin, March 10, 1860.
Hon. C. H. Randolph, Treasurer &c. Sir: In your letter of February 16th you stated the amount of funds in the Treasury at that date to be $232,903.21. Will you be pleased to furnish this Department with a state- ment of the amount paid out since that time, giving the amount of each claim and the name of the person in whose favor the -warrant was drawn? Sam Houston.
1 Executive Reco1·ds, 1859-1861, p. 93, Texas State Library.
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