BUNTON TO CHAMBERS.3

To Judge T. J. Chambers.

GONZALES, July 4, 1835.

MY DEAR SIR: The committee of safety of the Jurisdiction of Mina, having ordered me to hand to you the enclosed resolution offering you the respect of the committee, and inviting you to stop in Bastrop on your journey home to confer with the committee on the subject named in the resolution, and having done me the honor to show me in this town a communication and also a letter from Mr. Smith, and having had an interview with Messrs. Gritten and Gile, who with you and Mr. Smith, have let us know the true state of our business, I have determined by the advice of Dr. Miller not to make you a visit in Bexar, as I was expecting to do, but to remit to you through the doctor the resolutions of the committee, asking you to accept it thus remitted.

Condescend to accept, honorable sir, from this town in the name of the committee to visit the committee of Bastrop on your return, with the purposes indicated in the resolution. J. W. BUNTON.

P. S. If it be possible for you to visit the committee as they desire and expect with anxiety, let them know by a friend as soon as possible.

MINA (BASTROP) MEETING (JULY 4).*

On the above date, the citizens of the municipality of Mina. met by agreement to consider the present situation of the relations of Texas with the Government of the Mexican United States.

Resolved, that the people have entire confidence in the Committee of Safety, and that all their acts have the full

From Sp. Ms., Bexar Archives.

Also found in Newell's Hist. of Rev. in Texas, p. 205.

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No. 1, JANUARY, 1904.

Texas Revolutionary Documents,

Southern Traveler's Diary in 1840 (continued),

First University Planned for America (U. S.), by J. S. Flory,
The Duane Letters (continued),

Reconstruction Documents,

Reviews,

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23

40

53

57

61

72

78

81

Texas Revolution Documents,

104

Janney Genealogy (to be continued), by Miles White, Jr.,

119

Southern Traveler's Diary in 1840 (concluded),

Reconstruction Documents,

Reviews,

129

139

Jones Genealogy (to be continued), by A. S. Salley, Jr.,

147

157

Periodical Literature,

165

Notes and News,

177

No. 3, MAY, 1904.

Journal of William Calhoun,

Janney Genealogy (continued), by Miles White, Jr.,
Reconstruction Documents,

Jones Genealogy (concluded), by A. S. Salley, Jr.,
Reviews,

Journal of James Auld, 1765-1779,

Long's Discovery of Anesthesia, by C. H. Andrews,

Janney Genealogy (concluded), by Miles White, Jr.,
Reconstruction Documents,

The Word "Tote," by Thomas L. Broun,