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a messenger tomorrow morning to Comargo, to apprise the Quarter- master and Commissary at that place of the state of arrest under which I have been forced to place you. I do this as a precautionary step against any attempt that may be made to draw further supplies from their departments without my authority.- It may be useful also to embrace this opportunity of correcting an error of date which oc- curred in my first note of this morning dated the 5th when it should have been the 4th- Yours &C lHIRABEAU B. U J\UR. Capt. Commanding the Garrison at Loredo [Addressed:] Lieut. Thos. ::\I. Likins Present
No. 2251. LAMAR 'l'O G. H. CROSSMAN
Loredo 4th. Deer. 1846.
Capt. CROSS)IA:N" A. Qr. Master Comargo- Srn
I have been compelled to place Lieutenant Thos. :0-1. Likens my Qr. ::\laster & Commissary, in arrest. I can no longer confide the public funds into his hands. You will please, -therefore, for the future not to honor any draft which he may make on your Department. I would be pleased that you would notify the Commissary at Comargo. to the same effect. The Garrison here is much in want of funds, and I shall have very soon to ask you for additional supply, Lieutenant Likens refuses to make the required returns of his department; but I hope to be able, notwithstanding his concealment, to furnish a satisfactory exhibit- y ours respectfully MIRABEAU B. LAMAR, Capt. Commanding at Laredo No. 2252. STATE::\IENT OF G. W. PIERCE Having been Called upon to make a statement Concerning the sale of a Patent scale to Thomas M. Likens Quartermaster the following may be relied upon as substantially true. Soon after the organization of this Company to which I am at- tached I sold to Thomas J\I. Likens ( Q.::\I) a scale for which he agreed to pay me $4. a few days after he paid me the $4. saying at the time perhaps he would give me another $1 soon after arriving at this place (Laredo) he Called upon me for a recipt, remarking that he had another dollar for me I gave him my . recipt for $5, some two or three weeks subsequently, I was at his office, when he said to me that he would have to take my recipt again. ancl in regular form, to which I made no objections, in preparing for my signature to his formal re- cipt. he saicl that the scale he bought of me was broken ancl that he had purchased another, (I think he said of a mexican) for which he paid $4, Ancl would include the Amt. in my recipt making the total $9. I without a moments reflection with regard to the impropriety
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