The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 15, July 1911 - April, 1912 Page: 155
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Destruction of Historical Archives of Texas
The regular session of the sixth legislature adjourned on Feb-
ruary 4, 1856. On the same day Governor Pease sent the follow-
ing letter to the Adjutant General, Major James S. Gillett :
Sir:
The Legislature has adjourned without the passage of any law,
prescribing the mode in which the duties in your office shall be
performed, since the destruction of its records by fire, there is
therefore no longer any occasion for the services of an Adjutant
General.
They also failed to make any appropriation for the salary.
You will therefore consider your office vacated from and after
the receipt of this letter.
All documents and papers belonging to your office, you will
please deposit in the office of the Secretary of State, taking his
receipt therefor.
The governor's action in thus summarily suspending one of the
State offices appears to have received the approval of the legisla-
ture, for at its adjourned session in the following summer pro-
vision was made for Major Gillett's salary up to February 4th, but
no longer. The office was formally abolished and its duties trans-
ferred to the commissioner of claims by an act approved August
1, 1856.2 The office of adjutant general was revived by an act
approved February 14, 1860.3
1Executive Record, Vol. 276, p. 444, (MS.), in Department of State.
"Gammel, Laws of Texas, IV, 435, 442.
8Ibid., IV. 1409.155
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