[June — 1824.]
The inhabitants living in the Colony formed by the Empresario
Stephen F. Austin on the Brazos and Colorado Rivers in the
Province of Texas being desirous to be and for ever remain in
perfect peace and harmony with all the tribes of Indians, and
cosidering that the Wecos Tawacaneys and Toweasses on the Brazos
are our nigh neighbors and that the mutual convenience and interest
of the settlers as well as of those Indians requires that the most
perfect friendship and harmony should prevail between them, and
that a clean commercial intercourse should be established and kept
up between this Colony and those Indians which it has been
represented is the sincere wish and desire of the chief of those tribes.
Therefore I Stephen F. Austin Lieut Col of Militia Empresario
of this Colony charged with the administration of its civil affairs
and the preservation of good order do by these presents appoint
as Commissioners to visit said Indians on the
part of the inhabitants of this Colony and to represent to them
that our objects in settling in this country are purely of an
agricultural nature, that we have settled under the authority and by the
permission of the Supreme powers of the Mexican nation, that we
view all the Indians tribes as our friends and brothers and wish
to live in peace and trade freely with all, and as the Wecos and
their neighbors and the Mexicans have always been friends we wish
to establish a friendly understanding with them and offer them our
hands as brothers, who will be always willing to trade with them
and receive them as our friends—and that there may arise no
misunderstanding on the subject the settlers have sent up the said
to talk with them and form a lasting treaty
of peace and friendship for ever—