To Citizens Peter W. Grayson and Spencer H Jack

Genteemen We have the honour to enclose you a memorial to the general Congress of the United Mexican States, praying for the liberation of our fellow Citizen and friend Col: Stephen F. Austin from the confinement under which we learn he is placed, the feeling which prompts our memorial we are convinced has a simultaneous existence with the memorials of the Ayuntamientos of other municipalities upon the same subject. And as we beg you to consider this letter as your full and ample credentials to the Government on behalf of the authority vested in you by this Body, so we also beg that you will as Gentlemen well known to us, and entitled to every respect and consideration from the Government, use every exertion for the attainment of the object of your mission.

Thos. M. Duke [Rubric]

Matagorda July 28th 1834 Pres of Ayuntamto Miguel S. Rhoads Fisher [rubric] Secretary