36 TEXAS STATE LIBRARY time I am io remain here, and what I have to expect a Court Martial or otherwise. Verry Respectfully THOS M. LIKENS [Addressed:] Capt l\I. B. Lamar Comdg Laredo guards Laredo Texas.
No. 2270. LAl\IAR TO THOMAS l\L LIKENS
Laredo 9th December 1846.
Lieut. THos l\f LIKINS Srn
The only portion of your letter of this date which seems to require official notice, is contained in the following extract- viz- "I respect- fully ask, that you will inform me what length of time I am to remain here, and what I have to expect, a Court l\Iartial or otherwise."- In reply to this enquiry, I beg leave to refer you to my note of arrest, in which you will find, by the quotation which it contains from my Instructions, that it is made my duty, on arresting an officer, to report his conduct to Head Quarters. This I shall do in reference to your- self as early as practicable; and it is all that I can do for the present. I am now engaged in collecting evidence of some of the facts which lead to your arrest. This evidence, I shall dispatch in a few days to General Taylor; and shall await his answer. It will rest with him to prescribe the course to be taken; and whatever he orders, it ;yill by my duty to carry out.- Yours &C l\ImABEAU B. LAMAR. Capt. Commanding at Laredo.-
No. 2271. THOl\fAS l\'L LIKENS TO LAMAR
[Laredo, Texas, December 9? 18461 As I haYe no wish or desire to take or claim that which is not my own- I must be excused from taking the paper offered me by the little boy my paper is Ruled and was laid out to its self by myself and left in my Desk. I am greatly in want of it THOS. 1\f. LIKENS [Endorsed: J Likens No. 2272. J. l\I. CLAY TO THOMAS l\'L LIKENS Laredo 9th Dec. 1846 Leut. LIKINS Srn In place of the two quires of paper I sent you and which you have thought proper to return I now send you two others of the ruled Recd which if unsu:fficient for your purposes you can apply for more, I have been told that you are assining the want of paper as a reason for not making out an expose of your affairs. This difficulty can be removed by an application for any quantity necessary to said object but when you assert that the ruled paper in the office is your private property,
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