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[4329) [BURNET to HOUSE]
Executive Department October 20th, 1836
To the Honble
The House of Representatives Gentlemen
In compliance with your request of 18thinst. I have the honor lo remark that from many current reports, there is no doubt that many and considerable contributions have been made to the great cause of human liberty in Texas by the philanthropic citizens of the United States, which have never reached their ultimate destination, but have been fraudulently appropriated by pretended agents of fictitious friends for sinister purposes. Document A. exhibit all the donations of whatever description that have been actually received by this Government. And document B. presents a schedule of the gentlemen who have been expressly authorized to receive donations in behalf of Texas, with the instructions given to them. No communications have been received from either of these gentlemen on this subject. Messrs. T. Toby & Brother wrote me under date of 12 July 1836, an extract from which (paper C) is appended, that 2 brass nine pounders, had been presented by the Ladies of Havana in the Spanish Island of Cuba, to the Texians. Those guns have not yet been received. They are probably without carriages and still in the hands of the agents at New Orleans. The
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