The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 22, July 1918 - April, 1919 Page: 191
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Minutes of the Ayuntamiento of Sran Felipe de Austin 191
To James Holland for the same ...................... 9
To Alfred Kinyn for the same ........................ 3
To Thomas Gay for plank for J. G. H[o]ltham Coffin.... 4.32
Total amt. $321.32
The Ayuntamto adjourned until 2 o'clock P. M.
The Ayuntamto met according to adjournment Present, as
before.
The President presented the body with an ordinance on the
subject of raising the necessary funds to build a Jail in this town,
which after discussion, and some amendments was approved as it
stands recorded, and marked with No. 3 in the Book of Ordinances.
The subject of the sale of town and out lots was taken up and
ordinance No. 4 apprd.
[p. 31] The petition of Green B. Jameson accompanied with
an account, for his relief, was read and deferred to the next meet-
ing, and the president was required to investigate the subject and
report to the next meeting.
The petition of Jorge Fisher, praying that this Ayuntamto in
conformity with the 17 art. of the Colonization law of this state,
report favorably on his petition to the Governor of the State,
wherein he solicits an augmentation to the lands, to which as an
emigrant father of family he is entitled to, according to the 16th
Article of said Colonization law was read, discussed and the peti-
tion granted with the following decree. "That the Statements
made by the Petitioner in his memorial to His Excenly the Gov-
ernor of the State and to this corporation, are founded on facts,
and that this Body report favorably on the petition of the memo-
rialist in consideration of his good circumstances, honesty, ac-
credited industry, personal virtues, great capability in business,
and knowledge of several languages, among them, the Castillian,
and the english, and that his permanency, in this Depart will be
of mutual benefit to the Government and the people, and that this
petition be returned to the petitioner, together with this decree,
for the uses that may suit him, and that the [p. 32] same be en-
tered on the records.["]
The President stated that in virtue of the Several resolutions of
this body, he has called on the Empresario Stephen F. Austin, for
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