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X38 TEXAS ALMANAC.
len; Jackson-James Kerr; Sabine--J. S. Lane.
The following were also officers of the Provisional Government:
Secretaries of the Council-P. B. Dexter and E. M. Pease;, Secretaries of the
Governor-Charles B. Stewart and Edward B. Wood; Treasurer-Joshua
Fletcher; Auditor--John W. Moody; Comptroller-H. C: Hudson; Poet Master-
Genal--JohnR. Jones.
Te CoNVMoEN OF TsxAs.-The Provisional Government was superseded
by the Convention that met at Washington, on thelst day of March, 1836.
This Convention was composed of the following members, viz :
Municipality of Austin-Charles- B. Stewart. and Thomas Barnett; of
Brazoria-James Collingsworth, Edwin Waller, Asa Brigham and J. S. D.
Byrom; of Bexar-Francis Ruis, J. Antonio Navarro, Jesse B Badgett and
William Motley; of Colorado-William Menifee and William D. Lacey; of
Gonzales-John Fisher and Matthew. Caldwell; of Nacogdoches--John S.
Roberts, Robert Potter, Charles S. Taylor and Thomas J. Rusk; of Refugio-
James Power and Sam Houston; of Shelby-Martin Parmer and Sidney O.
Pennington; of Sabine-James Gaines and William Clark, Jr.; of Harris-
burg-Lorenzo de Zavala and Andrew Briscoe; of. Jasper-George W.
Smyth and S. H. Everett; of Jackson--Elijah Stepp; of jeerson--Claborne
West and William .B. States; of Liberty-M. B. Menard, A B. Harden and
J. B. Wood; of Bastrop-John W. Bunton, Thomas J. Gazley and Robert M.
Coleman; of Mitanm-Sterling C. Robertson and George C. Childress; of
Matagorda--Bailey Hardeihan and S. Rhodes Fisher; of San Patriio-Johlm
Turner and John W. Bower; of Washington-Benjamin B. Gooodrich, James
G. Swisher, George W. Barnett and, Jesse Grimes; of San Augustine-- E. O.
Legrand and Stephen W. Blount; of Red River-Robert. Hamilton, Collin
McKinney, A. H. Latimer, Samuel:P. Carson, Richard Ellis and William C.
Crawford; of (oliad--David Thomas and Edward Conrad. Richard Ellis
was elected President, and H. S. Kimble, Secretary. ' This Convention
adopted a Declaration of Independence, arid the Government of the. RrPB-
uc of TE as was thus inaugurated. They elected Sam Houston as Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Army; framed a Constitution, and adopted anl;ordi-
nance organizing and defining the powers of a Government to continue
until an organization could take place under the Constitution. This was
called the Government ad interim. The principal officers of the Government ad
interim, elected by the Convention, were as follows, viz :--David G. Burnet,
President; Lorenzo de Zavala, Vice-President; Samuel P. Carson, Secretary of
State; Thomas J. Rusk, Secretary of War; Bailey HardemanSeeretary of
the Treasury; Robert Potter, Secretary of the Navy; Diavi4 Thomas, At-
torney-General. During this Governmeit, which continued until the 22d of
October, 1836, there were many changes, and the following named persons
were, for a time, members of the Cabinet viz:--James Collingsworth and
Wm. H. Jack Secretaries of State; M. B. Lamar, F. A. Sawyer, A. Sorrville
and John A. Wharton, Secretaries of War; Peter W.' Grayson, A ttorney-
General; Barnard E. Bee, Secretary' of the Treasury; John R. Jones, Post
Master. GeneraL The following persons were also in office upder the Gov-
ernment ad interim:--Asa Brigham; Auditor; H. C. Hudson, Comptroller;
Benjamin C. Franklin, Judge for the District of Brazos,,
When hostilities commenced in September, 1835, and the volunteers as-
sembled at Gonzales, John H. Moore was elected to command them; sub-
sequently, when their numbers had increased, and Gen. Austin arrived in
camp, he was elected to command them, and continued in command until
towards the first of December, when he resigned, and went to the United
States as a Commissioner, with Archer and-Wharton. Edward Burleson
was then elected Commander, and continued in command until a few days
-after the surrender of Bexar by Gen. Cos, on the 10th of December, 1835.
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