Treat to Lamar, September 3, 1839, Tex. Dipl. Corr., II, 477-478. Texas loan commissioners were then trying to raise funds in the United States, but had met with little or no success. Treat had been given a bill against the commissioners which the Bank of the United States refused to purchase. He later obtained money from the United States Bank of Pennsylvania. Ibid., II, 491.
