I have received from Messrs Nathaniel Robins and Doctor Lewis R Dayton the representation which you directed to me under date of 20 february of the present year in which you complain that officers from the Govt of the United States of North America [are] exacting from you taxes and Contributions which in your opinion you ought not to pay on account of your being established on Lands of the Republic of Mexico. At the same time petitioning protection and assistance from this Govt, as well to avoid those exactions as for your defence against the incursions of the hostile Indians, on which particular I have to state to you that it is not within the bounds of my faculties to remidy the evils which afflict you not knowing the place where the division line between the two Republics will fall. You must therefore in the meantime bear with patience the disgusts of such treatment with the understanding that under this date I forward your representation to His Excellency the Governor of this State asking of him the necessary auxilliaries for that part of the frontier of which you will undoubtedly reap [an advantage] should your fate decide that you are [to be a part of] Mexican Territory. In which event, I [do not see] any objection to your provissionally forming and until the decission of the Supreme Govt, is given to your representation all the branches of organised government under a system already known and regulated by the laws which you are acquainted with until those of the Country which you wish to adopt are furnished to you.

God & Liberty

Snfelipe de Austin 19th April 1827

[J. Antonio Saucedo?]

To the Inhabitants of Pecan Point