[Translation of Treasurer's Receipt.]
As treasurer of the Public funds of this Province I have received
of the Baron de Bastrop commissioner of the Government for the
same Province for the Organization of the colonial Establishment
undertaken by Stephen F. Austin on the Colorado and Brazos
Rivers, One Thousand dollars which he collected of the Inhabitants on
account of the fees they are bound to pay to the aforementioned
funds for the value of the Sitios of Land which have been granted
to them, and for the Security and acknowlegment of the same I
give the present receipt, signed with my own hand in this district
of San Antonio this 16th day of September 1824, Acknowledged by
the Chief of the same Province.
$1000
Signed Miguel Arciniega
Acknowledged
Saucedo