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An Ordinance and .Decree to provide for tlze Outfit and Contingent Expenses of our Foreign Agents to tlze United States ofAmerica. Be it ordained and decreed, and it is hereby ordained and der.reed by the authority of the General Council of the Provis- ional Government of Texas, That the Governor shall be, and is hereby, authori:ted to draw on Messrs. M'Kinney and Wil- liams, of Quintana, in favor of each of our Foreign agents, Messrs. S. F. Austin and B. T. Archer, for the sum of fi\'e hundred dollars; or to draw bills of exchange, bonds of credit, or any other writing obligatory, which may enable them fo raise the sum of five hundred dollars each, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of their mission. SEC. 2. Be it further 01·dai11ed and decreed, That our Foreign Agents to tJ1e United States of America, l\fossrs. S. F. Austin and B. T. Archer, be, and they are hereby au- thorized to draw upon any agent or agents, bank or banks in which any of the funds of Texa;; may be deposited, for a fur- ther sum of two thousand dollars each, for the purpose of de- fraying any other expenses of their said mission, for all of which sum so drawn, the Provisional Government is held lia- ble and responsible. Passed at San Felipe de Austin, Dec. 6, 1835. JAMES W. ROBINSON, Lieut. Gov. and ex-officio Pres't of G. C. E. M. PEASE, . Sec'y of Gen. Council. Approved, December 8, 1835.
HENRY S:hllTH,
Governor.
C. B. STEWABT,
Sec'y to Executive, &c.
Be it resolved, That the prisoners taken at Golind, 'Col. Sandoval and others, be taken to the town of San Augustine, in the Mu,nicipality of San Augustine, and there delivered to the Committee of Vigilance and Safe~y, and by them to be safely kept, subject to the d1:;-
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