Summary: Calling election of delegates to revise judiciary system and to frame tax regulations.
notice
The various duties imposed on me as Empresario and the time
which must necessarily be devoted in the Course of the next fall
and winter, to closing the affairs of the old Colony and commenceing
those of the new added to Indian matters will render it difficult for
me to give that attention to those subjects which their importance
requires and at the same time attend to the Judicial business of the
Colony in detail, for this reason a change is necessary in the
organization of the Judicial system of the Colony, such a change can
be provisionally effected under the general authority vested in me,
but I feel an unwillingness to do it without the advice of thesettlers: I therefore request that the settlers of each Alcalde district
will convene on the first Saturday of August next at the following
places—In the district of the Bravo at the house of William
Millican, in the district of Sn felipe at the town of that name, in the
district of Victoria at Bolivar in the district of Mina at Amos Rails, in
the district of Colorado at James Cummins and in the district of Sn
Jacinto at the mouth of Buffalo Bayou; for the purpose of electing
two representatives from each district. The said representatives
thus elected will meet at this place on the third Monday of August
next for the purpose of forming a new provisional Judiciary System
for this Colony and to adopt an equitable system of taxation for the
support of such new system and to meet the exipences which may
arise out of Indian difficulties.
The above mentioned representatives are to be elected with the
express understanding by the people that the acts of a majority of
them which may be approved of by the Empresario are to be binding
on the whole Colony.
The Alcaldes of each district will preside at the said elections and
give to the persons elected a certificate of their election and a Notice
to meet at this place on the third Monday of August next.