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Analysis of Work of General Council, 1885-1886
Governor Smith states that the Council was being intimidated by
the land speculators who "collected themselves into a mob, that
is their minions, subs, and understrappers, and threatened to mob
the Council, until by degrees the members vacated their seats until
they had not a lawful quorum."4 It is possible that this mob is
the same as that referred to in the letters, and may account for
the desire on the part of the Council to leave San Felipe.
AFFAIRS OF STATE
The term state affairs is here used to cover a multitude of acts,
most of which were proposed by Barrett and his Committee on
State and Judiciary. The Council, November 16, adopted a reso-
lution to the effect that it should be governed by the rules and
regulations of the Consultation. These rules required, among.
other things, that proposed ordinances be read on three separate
days before passage; this rule could be, and frequently was, sus-
pended. Having determined upon the method of their own pro-
cedure, the Council passed an ordinance stating the mode of
"passing, signing and publishing" ordinances of the Provisional
Government. The important parts of this act were the provisions
endowing the Governor with the power of veto-a veto could be
overridden by a two-thirds majority in the Council-and making
it the duty of the Governor to have ordinances and decrees printed
in one or more newspapers in Texas." This act, as originally
passed, allowed the governor three days from the date of passage
of an act in which to exercise his veto. Governor Smith, feeling
that he should have three days from the time the bill reached his
intentions of our citizens who are not to be bought nor bullied into meas-
uree-should you come to this place you can be verry well accommidated
and find a strong support in the citizens of this place."
Daniel Parker to D. C. Barrett, Washington, January 8, 1836, in Bar-
rett Papers, University of Texas Library.
". .. The Counsel would be but reasonably situated here bording would
be much Cheaper here but Committe rooms are scarce, but I think you
would be tolerable comfortable here. Should you move up here and it is
necessary that I should return to my seat I will try to do so in a short
time. The barrer is wating I must hasten. things moves on reasonable
well, people are tolerable well satisfied with things. The peoples here
says that you shall be guarded against mobs if you come...."
"'Henry Smith, "Reminiscences of Henry Smith," in The Quarterly of
the Texas 8tate Historical Association, XIV, 50.
'Gammel, Laws of Texas, I, 553.
'Ibid., I, 920.319
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