Stephen F Austin, Branch T Archer, and William H Wharton to None, 04-05-1836
Summary: Agreement authorizing each other to negotiate loans separately, Washington.
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.
Washington City
[Endorsed:] S. F. Austin authority to effect a loan from Wharton
and Archer