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Analysis of Work of General Council, 1835-1836
munication from Houston complaining of delay on the part of the
Council in making appropriations necessary for the organization
of the army. The Council replied, December 21, with an appro-
priation of $40,000 to be used by Houston in raising and organ-
izing the regular army.41 General Houston was now provided with
an ample number of officers and a paper appropriation with which
to begin the business of recruiting, but efforts to fill the ranks
met with consistent failure. A committee of the Convention re-
ported, March 10, 1836, the number of privates in the regular
army as sixty; thirty of whom were stationed at Goliad and thirty
at B6xar. The thirty privates stationed at B6xar should not have
been counted, for the Alamo had fallen and with it exactly half
the enlisted men in the regular army of Texas.42 Following the
dispute between Smith and the Council, Colonel Travis, who had
been in charge of the recruiting service, was ordered by Smith
to proceed to B6xar. Smith, it seems, failed to fill the vacancy
he had created, "thus destroying all hope of filling the ranks of
the regular army."43
From time to time the Council created such offices as it thought
necessary for the army. Houston was authorized, December 6, to
send one or more agents to the United States with the commis-
sioners for the purpose of purchasing supplies and ammunition.44
The Council resolved, December 11, to appoint a judge advocate
general, who was to have the rank and pay of a colonel, and whose
duties were to be the same as those of the judge advocate general
in the United States in time of war.4' The office was given to
D. C. Barrett, a member of the council, and to this appointment
the governor objected in a most ungentlemanly manner, but his
objections must be reserved for later discussion. An ordinance of
December 18 listed the duties of the commissary general, the pay-
41Ibid.. I, 686, 1000.
42Ibid., I, 877; Barker, "The Texan Revolutionary Army,"' in The Quar-
terly of the Texas State Historical Association, IX, 236; E. C. Barker and
E. W. Winkler (eds.), Frank W. Johnson, A History of Texas and Texans
(Chicago, 1914), I, 321.
43Wooten, A Comprehensive History of Texas, I, 218.
44Gammel, Laws of Texas, I, 629, 959.
4slbid., I, 654, 655. This office was created at the request of General
Houston. See Houston to Barrett, December 11, 1835, in Barrett Papers,
University of Texas Library.333
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