A tract of land in the Province of Texas being granted to me by
the Government of this Empire whose limits are not yet defined,
but the situation of which together with the state of my claims and
every thing relative to them Genl. Arthur G. Wavell is enabled fully
to explain; and being desirous of establishing a Company for
Commercial, Mining and agricultural purposes, I hereby appoint said
Genl. Arthur G. Wavell my attorney to contract with a Merchant
or company of Merchants in Europe and to form a Company and
such other connections for me and in my name either jointly with
him or seperately as he may deem proper, in order to carry into
effect the objects of speculation enumerated in papers and
Memorandums furnished him and which I have in conversation made him
fully acquainted with—My said attorney is fully empowered to
mortgage, or put into the funds of the Company as stock all the
lands which I am to receive in Texas under the present application
now pending, except the one half of a concession for three hundred
families granted to my father M. A. which I have by contract
conveyed under particular conditions to Col Joseph H. Hawkins of
New Orleans, and also there must be a stipulation in the contract,
that said Hawkins is at liberty to become one of the Company
should he wish it by furnishing his proportion of the capital—
The Basis on which said A. G. Wavell is authorised to form said
company is that the lands furnished by me and the capital furnished
by the persons in Europe shall be the joint stock of the Company
the profits of which shall be divided in the proportions which my
said attorney and the contracting parties may agree on, All Mines,
Salt springs or wells, denounced by me as a citizen of this Empire
shall be for the joint use and benefit of the Company, also my time
and labour shall be devoted to the interests of the concern for which
such compensation shall be allowed me as may be agreed on by my
said attorney—hereby ratifying and confirming whatever my said
Attorney may lawfully do in the premises as fully as if done by
myself in person—
City of Mexico June 26. 1822
S. F. Austin [Rubric]
Copy of Power to Genl. Wavell
and as the said H. is a man of the first standing and connections
and may therefore be of material service to the company by
attending to its affairs in New O. Where it will be necessary to have an
Agent. I wish a clause in the contract that said Haw[kins] may be
admitted into the concern on such terms as may be mutually agreed
to by all concerned—