Randall Jones to Stephen F. Austin, 06-04-1824

Randall Jones to Stephen F. Austin, 06-04-1824 Randall Jones Project Director and Editor Andrew J. Torget Creation of XML version Debbie Liles Initial TEI Formatting Stephen Mues Programmatic and Manual TEI P5 Compliance Ben W. Brumfield Digital Stephen F. Austin Papers 07-17-2011 Stephen F. Austin Fort Settlement, TX San Felipe de Austin, TX Eugene Barker, ed., Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1919: The Austin Papers, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1924), 3 vols., Vol 1, Part 1, pp. 809 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Letter 06-04-1824 Programmatic restructuring and manual clean-up to comply with TEI P5 2.3.0 Restructured to meet TEI P5 standards Digital creation of XML file

Suggesting instructions to deputy in State congress. Slavery, registering marks and brands, forbidding the killing of deer and horses for skins, forbidding the burning of the prairie.

Fort Settlement 4th June 1824

Dear Sir

agreeable to the notice we received some of us agreed to have a meeting but I think we lack publick spirit. I would come up but our horses have been injurd by the flies so much that I could not come. My wish is that this country should populate fast and I think that nothing would facilitate that more than the admission of Slavery in this state. An act for the regestering of marks and brands also ought to claim the attention of the Legislature The increase of stock will cause difficulties. An act to prevent the killing of Deer and Wild horses for the Skins alone I think necessary also. An [act] to prevent persons from Setting the praria on fire near the Settlements would be necessary; at certain seasons if the praria was fird it would destroy our stocks. As a citizen wishing to conform to every request of my officers I have thought proper to communicate my sentiments in this way

R. Jones

[Addressed:] Col Stephen F Austin St Felipe De Austin