Translation.
Federal Army of Texas.
Headquarters, Camp Salado,
October 24, 1835.
You are fully authorized to contract with the inhabitants or owners of ranches for one hundred fanegas [about two hundred and sixty-seven bushels] of corn and ten of beans or peas for this army, at the current price, delivered in the encampment of the army, with the understanding that payment will be made in money, or that bills of exchange on [New] Orleans will be given, and that in addition to the public faith of the people of the departments of Brazos and Nacogdoches the principal capitalists of Texas, who are now in this army, are pledged for the faithful and due payment of the value of the corn and of all else that is bought from the inhabitants.
S. F. Austin.
To Señor D. Juan N. Seguin.
By order.
Warren D. C. Hall,
Adj. Gen.
