PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
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full and Complete forage and provision Returns- from 9th Septr up to date- these Returns I at every issue have demand of the sergeant- Were these Returns furnished me I Could then without difficulty make my Returns- I shall offer these as my Reasons before the proper officers for not making my monthly Returns-If I Cannot obtain them- Verry Respectfully Sir your Obedt. Sevt- THos M LIKENS Liut A. A. Q M & A A C S [Addressed:) Capt M. B. Lamar Comdg. Laredo Guards Present
No. 2249. LAMAR TO THOMAS M. LIKJENS
Laredo 5th. [4th] Deer. 1846.
Lieut. THos. 1\L LIKINS SIR
The general dissatisfaction that prevails against your administra- tion of the Quartermaster and Commissary departments of the Gar- rison at Laredo, constrains me to relieve you from the further dis- charge of their duties. You will, therefore, deliver the public stores & property in your possession, to private J as. M. Clay who is author- ised to receipt to you for the same. I will be pleased to have you make out your monthly returns and lay before me a full exhibit of the affairs of _your office, at a period as early as practicable- Yours &C MIRABEAU B. LAMAR Capt. Commanding the Garrison at Laredo.
No. 2250. LAMAR TO THOMAS 1\L LIKENS
Laredo 4th Deer. 1846.
Lieut. THos. 1\L LIKINS Sm
·In reply to a portion of your note of this date, I beg leave to say, that the Forage returns or requisitions you allude to as _being indis- pensible to your Settlement I suppose to be those which were made out by yourself & placed in my hands £or approval. They were first handed to me by yourself with a request that I would sign them. I, however, referred them to the inspection of Sargent Peace, who re- ported that they were in some particulars, incorrect. The corrections which he suggested, you adopted (as I understood from him) and they were re-delivered to me for my signature. I have them still in possession; and if they constitute the only obstacle to a full and satis- factory exposition of your affairs, I am ready to giYe them my signa- ture (provided they are correct) whenever you shall present your papers for inspection. All that I require is a plain and simple statement of the amount of Corn and beef which you have purchased; the prices paid; and an exhibit of the coroborating vouchers. Let this be done; and the same in reference to incidental expenses, and I ask no more. Unwilling to take any steps in relation to yourself without being fully apprised of it, I feel it incumbent to inform you that I shall dispatch
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