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goods for the king's troops at Nacogdoches and a consignment of nineteen loads for Francisco de la Rosa in New Orleans. The train master asserted that the loaded beasts and the other twenty-six mules and twenty-six horses belonged to De la Rosa. Upon being informed that it was against regulations to permit the exportation of horses and mules and that he could continue with only the number indispensable for transporting the freight, Salinas remonstrated that he needed twenty- four horses and eight mules for relays, besides those in the train. Arrambide reported on April 2 that, in accordance with the instructions received on March 31, he had permitted Salinas to resume his journey with the extra twenty-four horses and eight mules which were to be turned over to Barr in Nacogdoches, presumably to be driven on to De la Rosa. He sent back to San Antonio the other sixteen mules and two horses, because their use could not be justified by the train master. 36 When in May, 1806, Francisco Bermudez brought countercharges against De la Rosa, who was attempting to collect certain moneys which Bermudez had embezzled, Governor Cordero came to the defence of De la Rosa. He explained that the case had originated in New Orleans before the Justice of the Peace of that city, and that De la Rosa had been authorized by the Marques de Casa Calvo to appear in the courts of Coahuila to press the collection of the money due him by Bermudez. Strangely enough, Governor Cordero asserted that the accusation now brought by Bermudez that De la Rosa had sent large numbers of horses to Louisiana in violation of regulations was utterly without foundation. He maintained that De la Rosa had rendered singular service to the king in the past by permitting the use of his private pack trains to help keep the East Texas troops in supplies. 3 ? Such were the antecedents of the applicant for admission. He now informed the commandant at Atascosito that he had come to settle in the Spanish dominions, and presented his documents which were in order and duly signed by Jose Vidal, vice-consul in New Orleans. He explained that he had made his way up the Trinity in a small boat, because the ship which brought all his worldly possessions, his other servants, and his family, nineteen persons in all, could not negotiate the Trinity, and he was compelled, therefore, to leave them behind on 16 Arramblde to Cordero, March 30, and April 2, 1806. Ibid., pp. 135-136. 87 Cordero to N. Salcedo, May 21, 1806. A.G. I ., A11diencia d, Guadalajara, 104-2-9 (Dunn Transcripts, 1800-1819, pp. 134-35).
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