ers may be instructed, and if the said bonds shall be so sold or pledged, the said commissioner or commissioners are here- by required, and it is hereby made their duty, to require the purchasers thereof, or the persons to whom the same may have been pledged, or loan otherwise effected, to deposit and place the money for which the said bonds are sold or pledged, or loan otherwise etrected, to the credit of the Provisional Gov- ernment of Texas, in the Union Bank of Louisiana, at New Orleans, subject to be drawn for in such manner as the Pro- visional Government may hereafter direct. S1sc. 4. .-111d be it further ardaiued a11d decreed, &c., That it shall be the duty of the Governor to give such instruc- tions to the said commissioner or commissioners, as the Gen- eral Council shall order and direct for effecting the loan aforesaid. Passed at San Felipe de Austin, Dec. 4th, 1835. JAMES W. ROBINSON, Lieut. Gov. and ex-officio Pres't of G. C. E. M. PEASE, Sec'ry of General Council. Approved, 5th Dec. 1835.
HENRY SMI'fH. . Govern'or.
C'HAS. ll. STEW AR'l',
Sec'ry, &c.
A11 Ordinance creating a 1l1"11nicipality offof, andfrom the West side of tlze present Municapality of 1lfatagorda to be called tlze lvfunicipality ofJacl..-s011. Be it ordained a11d decreed, a11d it ·is hereby ordained a11d decreed by the General Omwcil of the Provisional Govcrnme11t of Te:i:as, That a municipality shall be created off of, and from the west side of the present Municipality of Matagorda, the same shall be known bv the name of the :Municipality of Jackson, and the Capital 'shnll be at the town of Texana, lately known as Santa Anna. The Municipality of J ackso11 is to be comprehended_ in the following boundaries, to wit: beginning at a pomt .on Matagorda Bay, equi distant from the Tres Palacios,
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