Stephen F. Austin to Jose Antonio Saucedo, 06-20-1824 Stephen F. Austin 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 Jose Antonio Saucedo Unknown Unknown 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. 836 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Letter 06-20-1824 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

Asks for a priest, or for authority to perform civil marriages.

As there are several persons who wish to be married, and several children to be baptized, I request you to be pleased to send the Padre, Refugio de la Garza, for this purpose, to avoid the bad consequences that result from delay in such cases. If the Padre can not come, let him give me the necessary authority to perform a kind of provisional marriage until he arrives; otherwise serious evils may result.

God and Liberty.

Estevan F. Austin.

June 20th, 1824.