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J/ #1 MANUEL DE MIER Y TERAN,GENERAL OF DIVISION OF THE ARMY OF THE MEXICAN REPUBLIC,COMMANDANT IN CHIEF OF THAT OF THE OPERATIONS,AND GENERAL AND INSPECTOR OF THE EASTERN INTERNAL STATES. I CERTIFY: that in the office of the secretary to the general oommandanoy of these states under my charge,there are proofs,that the schooner Canon and her captain have been surprised at the Bar of Rio Brasos de Dios.vith a contraband of one hundred and sixty quintals of tobacco,and in con - sequence of the fine of twenty five dollars for each arroba of said article which the particular law of the state of Coa- huila & Texas imposes,the said vessel was seized by oitizen Jorge Fisher Administrator of the maritime customhouse of Galveston,in compliance of the said law;and by means of the suitable requisites. In this state of the matter,the Admi- nistration of said maritime customhouse was suspended;for reasons very different from the acts of said Administradoz Fisher,and the^s&cognigance of the contraband was remitted to the commissary at Bexar,remaining Fisher in my opinion exempt from all resuonsability.by having surrendered said vessel in quality of seized,to the civil authority of the town of Austin. In testimony of which I give the present in Matamoros this third day of May,one thousand eight hundred and thirty one. MANUEL DE MIER Y TERAN. A true cooy of its original. Matatomzs 6th Mav laxi. Jorge Fisher. -Rubric.