86
TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
1466 lbs fresh Beef 100 " " Pork 300 " " Mutton Laredo, January 13th 1846
Yours respectfully
(Signed) Tuos. ::'II. LIKINS. For the pork and mutton mentioned in the foregoing letter he paid as follows- for two sheep at Wardow Three dollars; for one shoat on the road Three dollars, and for mutton again, Four dollars and seventy five cents, making in the total, Ten dollars and seventy five cents; which being added to the Sixty fixe dollars paid for beef actually re- ceived, makes the total amount expended for fresh meats, $75.75cts- and for this sum I offer the following Receipt.- Laredo 13th. J anry 1847. Received of Thos. 111. Likins, whilst he was acting as Commissary to my Command, Beef ancl other fresh meats to the amount of Seventy five dollars and Seventy five Cents. ($75.75cts) MrnABEAU B. LAMAR. Capt. Commanding at Laredo.- Laredo 13th. Janry 1847. The following is a list of the contingent expences incurred by my Command, and settled for by Thos. l\I. Likins whilst acting as Quarter- master and Commissary to the Same. Viz- Paid Usebia Garcia for the transportation of Sugar to Mier, where wagon broke down- Paid vVm. Dodson as Teamster Repairs done to wagon at Guerrero Paid Ferrvman at Guerrero-- Paid for \~ood at Laredo-- Paid a Mexican for attending to Mules the
$1.50. 3.00 3.50 2.00 3.00 5.00 4.00
Paid N. Williamson for Shoeing horses at Comargo- Paid A. ~fartines, the Alcalde at Laredo for the hire a Oxen &C to hawl Coal from the mines- Paid Filipi San Miguel for hawling public stores on our arrival at Laredo
Cart,)
5.00
) from the river) )
3.50
$30.50
Paid John Rodrigus as interpreter, $6.00 at one time and) one dollar at another- ) Paid to Jose l\fa. Gonzales Eight dollars as Interpreter for four) days. Regarding the sum as unreasonable and improper to have) been given, I reduced it to what I conceive to be right- ) Paid Mr Pierce four dollars for a patent weighing instrument; and subsequently gave him an additional dollar, which I am not disposed to allow, because there is no apparent reason for the act.
7.00
4.00
4.00 $45.50
To the above bill making in total the sum of Forty five dollars and fifty cents, I do hereby give my approval, that the same may ?ass to
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