WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1860
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but no such organization having taken place, your subsequent action does not remedy the matter. You will therefore disband your Company and deliver the arms &c. to the Chief Justice of Burnet County. If this order is not complied with, steps will be taken to enforce it. The Executive has nothing to do with the action of the citi- zens of Burnet County. His desire is to defend them; and no act on their part inimical to him, as stated by you, will prevent him from doing his duty. One detachment only being authorized, and Lieutenant Hair having mustered regularly into service, you will not be organized, or recognized. Sam Houston.
1 Executive Records, 1859-1861, p. 116, Texas State Library.
TO WILLIAM S. HOTCHKISS 1 Executive Department, Austin, March 30, 1860. To the Hon. William 8. Hotchkiss, Commissioner of the Court of Claims Sir: Whereas the application has b_een made by the President of the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado Railway Company for Three Hundred and Four Sections of land to which the said Company is entitled by an act of the late Legislature, restoring the rights forfeited by previous enactments. And, Whereas the State Engineer has reported under oath +hat the thirty-eight miles upon which this additional demand of eight sections per mile is made, is entirely completed and put in running order and that the same has been constructed accord- ing to the provisions of the Charter of said Company, and also of the general laws of the State in force at this time, regulat- ing Railroad Companies You are therefore requested to issue to said Company, its President, or other lawful officers, agent or attorney, the said Three Hundred and Four Sections of land in land .scrip of six hundred and forty acres each. Sam Houston.
1 Executive Records, 1859-1861, p. 116, Te~as State Library.
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