We the commissioners of Texas hereby authorize each other to negotiate
all or a part of the government bonds at 10 per cent Interest. In the present
exigency of Texas we are satisfied that money must be had immediately if
we have to pay as high a rate of Interest as our instructions authorize us to
give which is ten per cent.
WM- H. Wharton
B. T. Archer
Washington City April 5th 1836
[Endorsed:] S. F. Austin authority to effect a loan from Wharton
and Archer 1836.