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$11.10 Received by J W FANNIN Jr Agt. Provisional Govt of Texas
[Endorsed:] Receipts of Fannins at Goliad etc Discharges of Soldiers etc 15 papers
No. 308. CITIZENS' AND SOLDIERS' MEETING At a large and respectable meeting of the citizens and soldiers of this place, held this 26th day of January 1836, to take into consid- eration the recent movements at San Felipe, J. C. Neill was called to the chair, and H. J. Williamson appointed Secretary- The object of the meeting having been stated by the chair; on motion of Col. J. B. Bonham, a committee of seven was appointed to draft a preamble and resolutions for the consideration of the meeting; whereupon the following gentlemen were appointed by the chair. Chairman of Committee J. B. BONHAM. JAS. BOWIE. PREAMBLE. Whereas, we have been informed from an undoubted ·messenger that the executive council and its president, a subordinate and auxiliary de- partment of the government, have usurped the rigl_1t of impeaching the governor, who, (if we would imitate the wise institutions of the land of Washington) can only be impeached, by a body set forth in the constitution, which constitution must have been established by the people through their representatives assembled in general convention. Moreover, the said council and its president, whose powers are defined to aid the governor in fulfilling the measures and objects adopted by the general consultation, have taken it upon themselves to annul the measures of the said general consultation. They are about to open the land offices, which were temporarily closed until a general conve11tio11 of the people should take place, thereby openin~ a door to private speculation, at the expense of the men who arc serving their country in the field. .l\Ioreover the said council have improperly u:c:ed, aud ap- propriated to their own purposes H FiYe hundred Dollar Lonn, from n generous and patriotic citizen of the United 8tntcs intended to pay the soldiers in the garrison of Bexar. l\lorcover, thnt. private and de- signing men urc, nnd have been <>mbnrras~ing the governor, the legiti- G. B. JAMESON, Doctor POLLARD. JESSE BADGETT. J. N. SEGUIN. Don GASPER FLORES
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