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PAPERS OF l\IIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR
missary in you U. S. A. I send him Strong Papers- but cant tell what will be the result- [Addressed:] Genl. Mirabeau B. Lamar Commanding Laredo Gar- rison Texas
No. 2263. FELIPE SAN MIGUEL'S STATEMENT
Laredo 7th Deer 1846. I, Felipe San Miguel, a citizen of Laredo, do hereby Certify that I was employed in hauling public stores from the river on the arrival of the troops in this place. I received in payment for the same the sum of Three dollars and fifty cents, from Lieut. Thos. M. Likins for which I have my receipt.
his FELIPE X SAN MIGUEL mark
Witness ToMAS FLOHES [Rubric] F. 1\L PATE
No. 2264. ANDRES l\IARTINES'S STATEl\IENT
Laredo 7th 1846 I do hereby Certify .that I received from Lieut Thomas 1\L Likens the sum of Five dollars in payment for the use of my Cart and oxen in hauling Coal and that the said Likens in drawing a receipt for the same increased the Amount to nine dollars, giving as his reasons for the same that he wished to include in my recipt the sum of four dol- lars, which he had paid to another person for hauling the public stores from the riYer, and for which he had neglected to take a recipt, not suspecting any thing improper in the act. I gave my signature to the recipt as he had written it for Nine dollars. I have seen the Certificate of Felipe San Miguel in relation to this subject and know him to be the person employed in hauling the public stores, as stated in his Certificate- I further Certify that immedia~ely after signing the above mentioned recipt for nine dollars, he demanded Another recipt of me for Sixty odd dollars in payment for a beef which I had recently sold him for ten· dollars, still assigning as a reason that he wished to Cover some purchases which he had made without taking recipts, at the suggestion of the interpreter I declined to give my sig- nature and refered the Leutenant to the in,dividuals of whom he had made his purchases. ANDRES l\IARTINES [Rubric l Witness A PARKER TOMAS FLORES [Rubric] Laredo Deer. 7th 1846 I certify that I was acting as Interpreter at the time the Circum- stances mentioned in the foregoing Certificate of the Alcalde occured, and Can testify to the truth of the facts as set forth. J. A. WILKENSON [Endorsed:] Andres Martines and l\Ir Wilkinsons Certificate
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