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at the Commissariat Department, for the payment of $500. for bis last quarters Salary, as being clue to him, and for $500. as an advance for the next quarters Salary, in all One Thousand Dollars without exhibit- ing his Credentials neither in regard to his appointment nor the dues for Salary, and the Commissary Genl. being without any orders from the Treasury Department in relation thereto, he refused the payment of the Judges demand, the Consequence of which wa!I, after some con- troversy and Official Correspondence between the two mentioned func- tionaries, that the Judge to carri his pretentions into effect, npon the plea, of Fisher not having entered into Bond with Sureties for the faith- ful performance of the Duties of his Office, as required by law, and thus not being duly qualified to act in the Said Office, without the above mentioned requisites, and without requiring him, as he ought to have done, to comply with the provision of the law, had by his "fiat" of Sic volo, sic jubeo, pro protestatem mea.ns removed him from the Office of Commissary General of War, and placing an other individual into the Same, who previously compromised himself with the Judge, to yield to his precepts in toto. Thus vexed, and disgusted for having been on So many Occasions treated by the :Mexican Government with injustice and ingratitude and without remuneration for his many important long and labourious serv- ices and tasks of difficult and many of hazardous execution in many instances effected at his own expences and Costs, and unwilling to enter Texas with an invading Army to which Country he was twice ordered by the Treasury Department, per Extra, Oourriers," and "Executive orders" directed by the War Department, to the Commandant Genl. and through the Treasury department directed to the District Judge by vfrtue of a "Mandamus" to carry the Same into effect, under the Admin- istration of Vice-President Valentin Gomez Farias, exercising the Executive Power, in the absence of the President Santa Anna, being received in Matamoros while Acting as Commissary Genl., he deter- mined to retire to private life, relinquishing all his right, and preten- tious to preferment, and renouncing bis intention to accept of any Office under the Mexican Government, and in the Month of December of the Same Year he established himself in Matamoros as a Public Interpreter and translator of foreign languages, Jor which profession he was duly qualified by the Government of the State of Tamaul.ipas, upon the petition of the foreign and Native Merchants, and the Consuls of for- eign Nations resident there, l\nd at the recommendation of the local Authorities to the Executive of the State, who commissioned him pro- visionally, until the next Legislature of the Said State, exact~d a law regulating Public Interpretors and Translators of languages, by which law the appointment made by the Executive in Fisher, was recognized and confirmed, and he duly commissioned. The appointment of Auctioneer for said Port was also granted to him, in which Capacity Connecting thereto a General Agency Commis- sion Business, with a Book & Stationary Store, attaching to it a Job Printing Office, he was enabled not only to gain an honorable and hon- est decorous livelyhood, but aided by his mnny friends acquired by un- remitting perseverance, industry and enterprising disposition he so_on began to rise into notice in his Commercial Connexion with the interior
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