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6 TEXAS. [BOOK II.
arrested, in 1831, Don Francisco Madero, while
engaged in executing his commission from the Governor
of Coahuila and Texas, authorising him to
put the settlers on the Trinity river in possession
of their lands. The Commissioner and his surveyor,
Jose Maria Carbajal, were taken by Bradburn's
soldiers, and imprisoned at Anahuac. The
arrest was made under the plea that the Commissioner
was 'acting in contravention of the Eleventh
Article of the Law of the 6th of April, 1830; but its
gross illegality was manifest, and was emphatically
condemned by the Governor of the State.*
The next attack upon the rights of the Texans
was the subversion of the Ayuntamiento, legally
organised for the settlement of Liberty on the
Trinity river. Not content with formally abolishing
this municipality by a laconic military order,
and preventing the elections by force, Colonel
Bradburn chose to establish another at Anahuac,
without either the sanction or the knowledge of
the State government. This garrison corporation
claimed an exfraordinary share of civil prerogative;
and the commrandant, its head, assuming the appropriation
of extensive sections of land in the
character of empresario, distributed grants by
virtue of the law of the strong arm, in contempt of
the law of the State. Yet the principal officers of
* In the message of the Governor to the legislature of the State
of Coahuila and Texas, at the opening of the session in 1832, after
noticing the illegal conduct of Bradburn, in arresting the Commissioner
Madero, His Excellency observed--" This nmatter is in
such a situation that, to remove the obstacles, it would be necessary
to adopt measures that might compromise the State in the
highest degree."
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Kennedy, William. Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas. Volume 2, book, 1841; London, England. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2392/m1/12/: accessed June 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.