PArEns OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPATITE LAMAR
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'fhe Department only desires that you should repair to your post as speedily as is consistent with the proper arrangement of your pri rnte affairs. But it is right that you should be apprized that your salary under existing law will not commence until the day you actu ally leave your home, en route for your Legation. Superadded to this, however, the law allows salary for thirty days prior to your leaving home, during which time, it is presumed, you are receiving your in structions. These will be ready for you on your arrirnl here, so that you will not be subjected to any detention on that account, I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, Lew Cass
[Endorse(]] Mr Cass to M B Lamar Aug 1st. 57
No. 2525
1857 Aug. 12, TH[O1L-\SJ J. PAGE, WASHIKGTOX, [D. C.J TO MIRABEAU B[UONAPAHTE] LA1IAR, [RICHMOND, · TEXAS] ·Application £or the appointment of his son Th[omas] J. Page, [Jr.) as secretary of legation; sending his own synoptical report of his late exploration of La Plata and tributaries. A. L. S. 4 p. No. 2526 1857 Aug. 17, J[ERE}IIAH] S. BLACK, ATTOR�EY GENERAL'S OFFICE, [WASHINGTON, D. C.J Opinion upon the right of an American citizen to expatriate himself. Newspaper clipping. No. 2527 1857 Aug. 31, J. WILLIE, AUSTIN, [TEXAS] TO :M. B. LAMAR, [RICHMOND? TEXAS] 1 " Austin Aug 31, 1857 Dear Sir liy principal reason for addressing you, is that I do not like to be misunderstood by any one for whose good opinion I enter tain respect }Ir Fontaine informed me on Saturday, after the departure of the Stage, that a paper 17 had been placed in your hands containing a communication to the Ga!Yeston News, in which the statment is made by a correspondent that your appointment as minister was made in opposition to the wishes of G.en Rusk sustained by the written en dorsement of the Governor and of the principal state officers at this place. He also said to me that he had once called my attention to
' 0 A. L. S. See also no. 2529. "This paper is no Jouger with the Lamar Papers.
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