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express to you the object of the Executive; and I flatter myself that I will not be disappointed in the successful result of your services. Sam Houston
'Executive Record Book, No. 40, p. 376, Texas State Library.
T·o JAMES SMITH 1
San Augustine, August 26th, 1844.
To Brig. Gen. James Smith: Sir,-You are hereby ordered to have raised a company of mounted men, to consist of at least fifty-six rank and file, to be commanded by one captain, one first, and one second lieutenant- to be station in Shelby County, for the maintenance of peace and order, for the term of three months, unless sooner discharged. In the event of any embodying of men for the insurrectionary purposes again, in Shelby County, you will forthwith order out a force sufficient for the restoration of order and tranquility; and should necessity require it to be done, you will proclaim martial law, and act in conformity with the same, within the county of Shelby or elsewhere in your brigade, as the emergency may demand. Sam Houston 'Executive Record Book, No. 40, p. 370, Texas State Library. See Houston to General James Smith, August, 19, 1844, above.
To WASHINGTON D. MILLER 1
San Augustine, 26th Aug. 1844
Dear Miller, Please say to Doct. Jones to make out an ap- pointment for Judge Lipscomb, or in the event of his declining, let Col. Gillispy receive the appointment to fill the vacancy oc- casioned by the decease of Judge Jack. If they should both decline, I feel run out of material. How would Buckley, or Colonel Norton do? Ask Dr. Jones. He knows both! If these will not do, who will? I am on the eve of leaving for Trinity. I hope that I have quieted the Shelbyville riot. The leaders are all bailed, or about
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