Municipality of Austin
Information having been given to the Ayunto of this Municipality
that the inhabitants of the Colony of the Empresario Green De
Witt, belonging to this jurisdiction are suffering from the robberies
of barbarous Indians, who are supposed to be assisted and directed
by men of infamous character, prowling in the vicinity of that
Colony and who are stealing horses etc to carry to some other place
for sale. This Ayuntamto in the discharge of the duties and
obligations confered on it by the Laws have that proper for the
preservation of the property of the inhabitants and for the preservation of
good order and tranquility to appoint Mr Francis W. Johnson as a
Commissioner to proceed, with a number of militia men to the
western frontier of this Colony, and to the Colony of the sd Dewitt
for the purpose of investigating the true situation of those
inhabitants and also to endeavor to apprehend and secure those disturbers
of the tranquility and violaters of the Laws in order that they may
be brot to exemplary punishment, for which reason the Ayunto
calls on you as the Colonel Commandmant of the Militia of this
Municipality to place at the disposition of the before mentioned
Mr. Johnson a sufficient number of Militia Men, to secure the
objects of the Ayuntamto and the apprehension of all such evil
doers as may be found connected in the outrages Committed by the
Indians.
God and Liberty
Town of Austin 24th Novr 1830
Tho. Barnett [Rubric]
Samuel M Williams Secy protem [Rubric]
Colonel Stephen F Austin
Commander of the Batallion of Militia of Austin