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WRITINGS OF SAi\•I HOUSTON, 1844
THE PASSPORT OF WARRICK, AN 1NDIAN 1
Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas, To All To Whom these Presents shall Come: Greeting- Know ye that Warrick, a Tonkeway adopted into the tribe of Tah-woc-canies, has been at Washington and has held a talk in council with me. He is friend of the whites, and has promised to use his best efforts in bringing about a general peace with the Indians. He will go to the Tow-we-ash and other tribes and induce them to come to the great council in April next at Tab-woe-canny Creek, and do all things else to establish and preserve peace. He is therefore commended to the kind treatment and hospitality of the people of Texas. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the Great Seal of the Republic at Washington, the 3rd clay of February, 1844. Sam Houston [Rubric] W. D. Miller, Private Secretary. "'Houston's Private Executive Record Book," pp. 483-484, courtesy of Mr. Franklin Williams.
A PASSPORT FOR ANDREW NEILL 1
Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas To all to whom these presents shall come, Know Ye, that Andrew Neill~ Esquire, special bearer of despatches from this government to the agents thereof in Mexico has this free pass- port to travel with his servant, horses and arms without hindrance or molestation to Matamoras thence to Sabinas or else- where as circumstances may require hereby ordering all authorities civil and military in this and requesting all in that country to render to him such aid and support and protection as he may stand in need of in his travel there and his return. . In testimony whereof I have caused the great Seal of the Republic to be hereto affixed. Given under my hand at Washington this 4th day of Feby A. D. 1844 and of the Independence of the Republic the eighth. By the President Sam Houston Anson Jones, Secretary of State. • 1 Di7Jlo111atic Correspondence of the Republic of Texas; also, Collection of Houston Letters, 1836-1860, Texas Stnte Library. Garrison did 11ot
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