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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
drafts drawn subsequent to these instructions bore numbers
10577 and 10578.60
Although the information given above clearly indicates that
none of the Le Grand claim was finally approved by the Board of
Auditors until February 16, there is evidence that the $399.56 for
McKinney and Williams was initially allowed by the auditor (not
the larger board) on February 11.81 Le Grand may not have
been around to collect his money. Certain it is that his attorney
received the draft for the $1479.44, and a representative of Mc-
Kinney and Williams received a draft for the $399.56.62 There is
some evidence to indicate that Le Grand's attorney received the
draft in February. If this is true it could have been possible that
Le Grand himself presented the draft when it was paid by the
treasurer on May 2.63
Le Grand's activities during the period his petition was before
Congress have not been ascertained. If he undertook the per-
sonal venture to the plains mentioned in his petition to Congress
of November 23, 1837, he probably returned to Houston to be
present when the Second Congress again considered his claim.
In May, 1838, within the week that Sam Houston was vetoing
the joint resolution for his relief, Le Grand was contributing
from his store of knowledge to the edification of the readers of
the Telegraph and Texas Register. The editor, in commenting up-
on the published reports of the arrival of a party of Comanches at
the President's home in Houston, added this comment: "Maj.
Legrand who has resided several years among the Comanchies,
states that this party belongs to a portion of the tribe called
'Comanchies of the Woods'-who inhabit the hilly tract of coun-
try north east of Bexar. They are a poor, degraded, abject race,
and hardly bear any resemblance to the Comanchies of the
prairie."6
soThis information is from Comptroller's Military Service Records, Texas State
Archives.
61Harriet Smither (ed.), Journals of the Fourth Congress of the Republic of
Texas x839-z84o, to which are added the Relief Laws (Austin, 1929), 32, 35, 70.
62A signed, undated acknowledgment of the receipt of the draft, with an illegible
signature, is found in Comptroller's Military Service Records, Texas State Archives.
6aSmither, Journals of the Fourth Congress, 35.
"4Telegraph and Texas Register, June 2, 1838, p. 2, c. 4. The front page of this
issue bears date of May 30o, 1838, but the editor, in a note under the masthead on
page 2, column 4, states that this was a mistake of the "compositor" who supposed
the paper would continue to be issued semiweekly.188
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