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teer force or "minute men," as you may deem
necessary for securing and protecting the public
property at San Antonio. Upon the assembling
of the force, you will proceed, without delay, to
San Antonio, and report to the undersigned when
you arrive in the vicinity of the city.
TIIos. J. DEVINE,
SAi. A. MAVERICK,
P. N. LUCKETT,
Commissioners of Committee of Public Safety.
Correspondence with Col. Waite, and Lists of
Volunteers, sent to various posts.
[Copy.]
SAN ANTONIO, February 22,1861.
Col. C. A. Waite:
SIR: Your communication of the twentieth instant,
making a requisition on us for one hundred
wagons and six hundred mules, has been duly
considered, and the necessary orders will be issued
to carry out the requisition.
Very respectfully, your obedient servants,
P. N. LUCKETT,
THOMAS J. DEVINE,
S. A. MAVERICK.
[Copy.]
SAN ANTONIO, February 25, 1861.
Col. C. A. Waite:
SIR: We have just learned that on Saturday,
Capt. John H. King, of the infantry, enlisted a
man in his company. If such is the case, we denand
that he be immediately discharged, and that
no further enlistments take place.
Respectfully, your obedient servants,
THOMAS J. DEVINE,
S. A. MAVERICK,
P. N. LUCKETT,
Commissioners on behalf of the Corn. of Public Safety.
HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS, )
SAN ANTONIO, February 26, 1861.
To Afes.srs. Thomas J. Devine, S. A. Maverick,
and P. VI1 Luckett, Commissioners, etc.:
GENTLEMEN: In answer to your letter of the
twenty-fifth, I have to say, that I have directed
Captain King to discharge imimediately the man
he enlisted.
I shall take measures to prevent the enlistment
in future of any citizen in Texas.
I am, gentlemen, very respectfully, your obedient
servant, C. A. WAITE,
Brevet-Colonel U. S. A. Commanding the Department.
HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS,
SAN ANTONIO, February 21, 1861.
GENTLEMEN: I have been informed by Captain
Reynolds, Assistant Quartermaster, that the
funds placed in his hands, pertaining to the Quartermaster's
Department-and for which he is personally
accountable to the Treasury-have been
seized by an armed body of Texans, and are no
longer in his possession.
The Commissioners, on the part of the State of
Texas, "formally and solemnly agreed with Brevet
Major-Gen. D. E. Twiggs, United States Army,
Commanding the Department of Texas," that
"the necessary means for regular and comfortable
movement, provisions, tents, etc., etc., and transportation,"
shall be allowed the troops; and that
the public property at the various posts other
than that above recited, "shall be turned over to
the agents," etc. The words, "public property,"
do not include money-and certainly not money
in the hands of disbursing officers who are per.
sonally accountable for it to the Treasury of the
United States. Their bondsmen, their private
property, and their commissions, are pledged to
their Government, for the faithful disbursement
of the funds entrusted to them.
Believing that a proper construction of the
agreement referred to, will not authorize the retention
of the funds lately in the possession of
Capt. Reynolds, and seized prior to the agreement
between the Commissioners and Gen. Twiggs, I
have to require that they may be returned to him
immediately.
I am, gentlemen, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
C. A. WAITE,
Col. U. S. Army, Commanding Dep't.
To Messrs. THOMAS J. DEVINE, P. N. LUCKETT, S.
A. MAVERICK,
Commissioners on behalf of Con. of Public Safety.
HEAD QUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS, Official
SAN ANTONIO, March 5, 1861. f copy.
U. A. NICHOLs,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
SAN ANTONIO, February 22, 1861.
To Col. . A. Waite, U. S. A., Commanding
the Department of Texas:
SIR: We are in receipt of your communicatioa
of the twenty-first inst., in which you state th:t
"the funds placed in the hands of Capt. Reynolds,
Asst.-Quartermaster, and pertaining to his
department, have been seized by an armed body
of Texans, and are no longer in his possession."
You likewise state that "the Commissioners formally
and solemnly agreed with Brevet MajorGen.
David E. Twiggs, Commanding the Department
of Texas, that the necessary means for regular
and comfortable movement, provisions, tents,
etc., and transportation, shall be allowed the
troops, and that the public property at the various
posts other than that above recited, shall be
turned over to agents, etc." You further state
" the words public property do not include money,
and certainly not money in the hands of disbursing
officers, etc." You likewise state that a proper
construction of the agreement referred to, will not
authorize the retention of the funds lately in the
possession of Capt. Reynolds and seized prior to
the agreement between the Commissioners and
Gen. Twiggs, and you (I) have to require that
they be returned to him immediately."
In reply to that portion of your communication
referring to our agreement with Gen. Twiggs, for
the comfortable movement of the troops, etc., we
have to remark that our actions with reference to
the movement of the troops will attest our willingness
to perform our part of the agreemelnt
and we are now, as we have been heretofore,
ready and willing to carry it out, according to the
letter and the spirit of the agreement. With
