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no enrolled copy was in existence, the printed one was recog-
nized.70
R. M. Potter, who got his information from Dr. Miller, "a
gentleman who was prominent in the affairs of Texas both before
and after the Revolution," gives a different version of the affair.
He states that Kimble took the instrument away, that the pro-
visional government found themselves without an authentic copy,
and that in their desperation they made a copy of their own, and
published it. However, the original copy was sent in to them
after a time; but they decided to suppress it and to use their own
manufactured document.71 A comparison of the last pages of
the journals with the printed constitution gives a little color to
Potter's story, for we find the convention adopting finally the
twelfth section of the article on "General Provisions" when the
printed constitution contains but eleven sections in that article.
Other discrepancies may be observed, also. However, the Jour-
nals are evidently not complete, and we have a very poor record
of what took place on the hectic night of March 16-17 when the
constitution evidently was adopted, although the official record
does not show that it was.
However, while preparing this article the writer located and
managed to borrow a copy of the constitution of the Republic of
Texas printed together with the Declaration of Independence in
Washington, D. C., and bearing the date May 22, 1836.72 The
instruments were printed on the authorization of Robert Hamil-
ton and Geo. C. Childress, plenipotentiaries from the Republic
of Texas to the United States of America. A careful comparison
of this copy with that ratified by the voters of Texas does not
reveal any difference of consequence.73 Following the constitu-
7Linn, John J., Fifty Years in Texas (Victoria, 1883), 53.
71Potter, R. M., "The Texas Revolution," 15, published in The American
Magazine of History about 1878.
" Loaned the writer by Mr. Thomas W. Streeter, of New York City.
"There is considerable difference in punctuation and several signers
are missing in the case of the Washington copy. For instance, the names
of Samuel A. Maverick, John W. Moore and Joseph Wert are not signed
to the Washington copy of the constitution; and S. Rhoads Fisher, John
W. Moore and A. Briscoe are not signed to the Declaration of Independ-
ence. The name of Asa Brigham, which does not appear on the copy
of the Declaration of Independence in the office of the Secretary of State
at Austin, is among the signers of the declaration on the Washington
copy.216
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