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with you. If it is not necessary to send to the Comanches until I can see you and the commissioners, I will prepare and send a talk in answer to the one which I have received. You may permit as many prisoners to return to their people at this time as may desire to do so. Those that remain you will make such disposition of as will incur the least expense to the government, and left where they will be treated with humanity. Their labor is worth more than their support, with the exception of two or three children. You will keep an eye to this matter; and render to me a strict account of all the expenditures incident to the treaty, and other matters. Sam Houston. 1 Pape1·s on bulian Affairs; also Executive Reco1·d Book, No. 40, pp. 250-251, Texas State Library. ~see Volume II, 512. "See Houston to Colonels J. C. Neill and Leonard H. Williams, April 6, 1844, above. •Ethan and Beden Stroud were brothers. Both were Indian agents and lived in the Trinity district. GBenjamin Sloat. See Volume III, 481.
TO J. C. NEILL AND LEONARD H. 'WILLIAMS 1
City of Houston, May 1st, 1844. To Colonel J. C. NeilP, and Colonel Leonard H. 'Williams\ Commissioners of the Indian Treaty: Gentlemen:- Your communication has been received, and I reply to it with pleasure. I regret much that the Comanches have not arrived. From the information given by you, it appears that it will not be possible for them to attend before the last of September. You will therefore communicate to them, that they will come at the first change of the leaves from green to yellow, when if the Great Spirit is willing, I will meet them at Tawoccano Creek. The great rains have kept me from attending the council ground at this time. Let this word be sent by Col. Leonard H. Williams to the Comanches; and he can tell them the number of moons and days, that will pass by until I expect them. If he cannot go to them; and Luis Sanchez should not be able to go, you will counsel with the Superintendant, Major Western,• and Mr. Sloat, agent, and determine upon some man to send who will take my words to. the Comanches.
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