The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 21, July 1917 - April, 1918 Page: 399
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Minutes of the Ayuntamiento of San F67ipe de Austin 399
shall compose another district for a company to be known as the
Fourth Company: Beginning on the coast at the southwest corner
of the third district, a league west of the San Bernard, and fol-
lowing the coast from there westward to the mbuth of Lavaca
Creek; thence up the said creek to the Atascosito road; thence
eastward along the said road to the San Antonito Creek, or
"Scull Creek"; thence down this creek to the Colorado River;
thence eastward to Eagle Lake; thence to the lower line of the
before mentioned Slaughter's league on the San Bernard; thence
to the head of Llano or Big Creek; and down said creek to the
line of the third district, which is followed to the point of be-
ginning.
The territory comprehended within the following limits shall
compose a district for half a company: Beginning at the head
of Llano Creek [p. 17a] and following thence the north line of the
fourth district to Lavaca Creek; thence up the said creek to its
head; thence north to the Bexar road; thence east along the road
to the watershed between the Brazos and the Colorado; thence
southward following the western boundary of the first district to
Big Creek at the point of beginning.
Then, in conformity with decrees Nos. 58 and 6913 on the
organization of the militia, the citizens subject to militia duty
shall meet in the respective districts the 13th day of next March
for the election of the officers prescribed by the above mentioned
law No. 58. These elections shall be presided over by persons
appointed by this ayuntamiento. And since, by provision of the
supreme government, the colony of the citizen empresario Green
DeWitt is provisionally joined to the jurisdiction, in accordance
with the official letter of the chief of the department, dated the
6th of the present month, such part of the company shall be
formed in that colony as its population shall justify according to
the law. This force shall be joined to the Austin battalion until
the increase of the population shall require other arrangement, or
the superior authorities shall otherwise determine. For this reason
the ayuntamiento will send the appropriate instruction (reta'cion)
to the empresario for the organization of the militia and the
election of officers, as provided by law.
"8In Gaummel, Laros of Tewas, I, 220.
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