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TEXAS STATF. LIBRARY
Thomas .Flores
received
32 votes )
) For Commissioner
"
Scattering
8 " ) We the managers do hereby certify that the above is a
true statement of the polls, by which it will appear that Augustin Soto and L. •r. Tucker were duly elected Justices of the Peace, and Thomas Flores County Commissioner. There being no candidate for Constable, none was voted for.- W B Peace ) ) Hamilton P. Bee. ) Mirabeau B. Lamar Presiding Officer 1 Gardner W. Price ) ) Secretaries Anasto· Gonzs. ) [rubric] [Endorsed] R.eturns of the first Election held in Laredo under the authorities of Texas. - No. 2338 Managers 1847 ,July 14-. J. P. HENDERSON EXECUTIVE OFFTCF.. ATTS- TIN, [TEXAS] TO M. B. LAMAR, [LAREDO, TEXAS] 80 Executive Office Austin July 14th 1847 To Genl MB Lamar My Dr Sir Upon my return to• this place about two weeks smce I found your communications 81 of the 2nd. March and 23rd. of May. I regret that accidents haw prevented you from holrl- ing elections for local county officers in Larado as I think it a mat- ter of some importance to the State to organize &c in the sections of our Counties bordering- on Mexico. I shall ns soon as an opportunity is afforded (which I think will he in a day or two) write to the Chief Justice of Nuaces County and direct him to act upon your suggestion & se~d you an order for the election leaving the time when it will be held blank which I hope will reach you in time to organize &c. I ap- plied to the President early last Spring for leave to raise a regiment of Mounted men for the protection of our frontier and have them mus- tered into the ~ervice of the U. S. Only three of the companies of the regiment called for in Octr last to senc for the War in Mexico having
""A. L. S. ••see no. 2320 dated March 3.
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