WRITINGS OF SA;\I HOUSTON, 1836
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To THE TEXAS SENATE 1 .
Executive Office, December 10, 1836
To the Honorable the Senate Gents: I take pleasure in communication to your honorable body the following list 2 of nominations to offices in the Battalion of Mounted Riflemen, created by the late law of Congress, in which I ask the concurrence of the Senate Sam Houston [Rubric] 1 "Mesrnges of the Presidents," Conyress-ional PaJJers, Texas State Library. 2 The enclosure is here omitted.
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To HENRY SMITH 1 Executive Department, Columbia, Deer. 12, 1836
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Sir You are hereby requested to deliver to Col. Amasa Turner/ the Land Script, int'ended for David White, Agent for Mobile, he being authorized to receipt for the same. Sam Houston To Hon. Henry Smith Secretary of the Treasury [ Endorsed] : No. 1 12 Dec 1836 President's Order for de- livery of Land Script to Col. Turner 84 Dec 12th, 1836. [ Recorded] : Recorded Augt 25 1840 on page 72 of Record Book No. 1 Letters to T'reasury Department John M. Swisher 3 Recording Clerk 1 Comptroller's Letters, Texas State Library. 2 Amasa Turner (November 9, 1800--:,July 21, 1877) was born in Massa- chusetts, but removed to Mobile, Alabama, while still a very young man. In Alabama he engaged in the lumber and construction and building busi- ness. After suffering a long illness in the spring of 1835 he went to 'l'exas in search of health. Stopping overnight at Bastrop he was induced to join a surveying party headed by Bartlett Sims that was on the point of setting out for a job of several months duration. After a month with this party Turner decided to locate in Texas, so he made application for a headright of land. When the revolution broke out he joined the army and became a member of Captain Robert M. Coleman's company on Sep- tember 28, 1835 (Comptrolle,·'s Military Se,·vice Reco,·ds). On November 29, the General Council elected him first lieutenant of a new company that was formed (Gammel, Laws of Texas, I, 600). He participated in the "Storming of Bexar," after which he was appointed a recruiting officer and ordered to proceed to the United States for the purpose of getting recruits. He sailed from Velasco for New Orleans on December 25, 1836. At New Orleans he recruited 100 men and returned to Texas, reaching Velasco, January 29, 1836. After going to San Felipe to make his reports, he was returned to Velasco to recruit the individual soldiers arriving at
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