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and all your family should take advantage of the occasion to get lanil~ and if you or any of your family wisp some land in this part of tlw country I offer my services to select it and pa~• the expenses of meas- urin<T it and secure the tit.les for n portion of the land and I c:an al!':o assist you to (Tet families to cultivate it according to law The best wa,, to· (Tet lands is from the <TOYernment becau::e the lands thus sec:nred J O O 1· I are guaranteed and you can sell them before having to cu tn·ate t 1cm all a requirement that the law places on the colonies In regarcl to yours I would !:elect the land in the best places .and pa_y all the cost~ but not for the land itself this you will have to pay to the goYernmcnt. That is to say for one half of the land I would pay the surveyor the commission and for the deed and see that the land has not hc<>n occupied by others without license and that the timber has not hren destroyed and that it was cultivated according to law That is to say you secure eleven sitios [48708 acres] and in this way one half wi 11 be yours and one half mine Present my regards to our friends and to all of your fam•iJy and command your friend S. F. AUSTIN [Rubric 1 No. 83. STEPHEN F. AUSTIN TO JOSf:: ANTONIO NAVARRO l Translation from the Spanish] [San Felipe de Austin, No,·ember? 182!1 I I received your letter of the 29th of last mouth and I gh·e you my sincere thanks for the kind reflections that you make relative to the loss by early death of my brother The mail arrived very late and is now lea.ing and I have not time to write much In regard to the employment that the Government has given to you as manager of Gnlwston I believe like you that for some time it will not produce sufficient to liYe upon whether or not it will be productive in the futnrC' depend~ entirely on the safety of Texas nrnl it appears that it is doubtful on account of the last decrees sent out by the legislature extraordinary and unknown to the Constitution which has been estab- lished in )lexico I think if the country was well established the office would be of sufficient consideration The father-in-law of Mr. Samuel lires on San Jacinto and has a boat in order to go to the landing au<l not to the Tslancl of Galveston If you think of making a ,·isit you can do in this way without difficulty The Island is thinly populntrcl nncl I am of the opinion that the custom house shonl,l lw at Brnwri11 on the Brnzos 'fhe 75 lbs of coffee are in Brazoria and as i:oon ns I cnn I will see if he can take it )fy ESTEEMED FRIEND I C'annot su.v positively when the vessel will leave for Orleans. The inkrest which my brother hacl in her has been sold I wrotr to Brazoria ahout this pnrticularlv :md will ach·ise vou. I shall hr much plrai:e,l to see \'OU here. I liYC with Dn Saml and rou mui:t c·onw ,foec-t to our rnhi'n- it is one mile from the villag<". · I will not '"Jll'Hk ol' tlw Inst letters hecaus<.' 1 ha,·c not time to m1sw<"r tlwm hy thi~ mnil I tru~t with all confidence in the wis<lom and firmnr;;s or the authorit iC'~ of that place- the statement of our worthv chi,•f of the department ii: very good and will not fail to ham mn<'h iufh1r11cC'.
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