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AUSTIN, STEPHEN FULLER. Partly printed document signed ("S.F. Austin"), co-signed by Branch Arthur Tanner and William Harris Wharton (Commissioners of Consultation), New Orleans, 11 January 1836. 1 page, 4to, 270 x 210mm. (10 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.), accomplished in manuscript, triangular cancellation loss at center (affecting several words of text), else fine. Attractively printed by Benjamin Levy of New Orleans (imprint at bottom) with wide decorative typographical borders and decorative lettering on side "Government of Texas," and heading "Texian Loan."
A Texian Loan certificate, issued a scant month before Santa-Anna's attack on the Alamo, declaring that Thomas D. Carneal paid "...[$32.00], the First Installment on a loan of [$320.00], made by him this day to the Government of Texas..." Stephen Austin (1793-1836) and the two other Texas Commissioners had traveled to New Orleans to promote these Texas bonds as part of an effort to raise desparately needed capital for the Republic of Texas's government and army. It represents the first of ten installments paid by Carneal for 640 acres of Texas land; Carneal eventually purchased in excess of 4,000 acres.
A Texian Loan certificate, issued a scant month before Santa-Anna's attack on the Alamo, declaring that Thomas D. Carneal paid "...[$32.00], the First Installment on a loan of [$320.00], made by him this day to the Government of Texas..." Stephen Austin (1793-1836) and the two other Texas Commissioners had traveled to New Orleans to promote these Texas bonds as part of an effort to raise desparately needed capital for the Republic of Texas's government and army. It represents the first of ten installments paid by Carneal for 640 acres of Texas land; Carneal eventually purchased in excess of 4,000 acres.