Stephen F Austin to Rafael Gonzales, 06-04-1825 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 12-13-2010 Rafael Gonzales San Felipe de Austin, Texas 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 2, pp. 1120 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Letter 06-04-1825 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

Accepting conditions of contract to settle 300 additional families.

Having received and duly considered the articles of contract, and terms stipulated in the foregoing official communication of his Excellency, citizen Rafael Gonzalez, Governor of the State of Coahuila and Texas, relative to the colonization of three hundred foreign families, on the vacant lands remaining within the boundaries of the Colony which I have already established in Texas—I hereby accept and confirm them, binding myself to fulfil them in all their parts, under the penalty of forfeiting all the rights and priviliges indicated in the third section of these articles of agreement.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto sign my name, with my own hand, in the town of San Felipe de Austin, 4th June, 1825.

Stephen F. Austin.

To His Excellency, the Governor of the State of Coahuila and Texas.