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[Message from Jose Lafuente in Laredo]

Description: Message from Jose Lafuente to people in Laredo concerning people who were using flower decorations reserved to Corpus Christi processions must pay a fine of of five pesos within fifteen days; jail sentences are to be issued without payments. Lafuente also references a recent drought.
Date: 1808-06~
Partner: St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library

[Procedures and Regulations from Manuel de Iturbe]

Description: Message from Manuel de Iturbe with procedures and regulations regarding fiscal agents guilty of embezzlement. The document is badly stained and frayed, and is also signed and dated by local Spanish authorities acknowledging their having received the message from the governor.
Date: 1808-06~
Partner: St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library

[Orders from Felix Calleja and Pedro de Alva]

Description: Copy of a letter from Don Felix Calleja and Pedro de Alva with orders to arrest José Hermenegildo Muños and Trifón Marín, who both escaped while being sent to the Philippines. Also included in the document are descriptions of both of the men. Town officials signed their names on the document acknowledging their having received the notice.
Date: 1804-06?
Partner: St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library

[Transcript of Invoice of Several Goods loaded in the Boat of Mr. Moses Austin, June 11, 1803]

Description: Copy of transcript for an invoice of several goods loaded in the boat of Mr. Moses Austin and received by James Austin. The invoice includes an itemized list of merchandise, quantities purchased and price. Merchandise items include: fabric, blankets, kitchenware, wine, knives, logs, sugar, chalk and coffee.
Date: June 11, 1803
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

[Transcript of Statement by Moses Austin Regarding the Account with John F. Merieult, June 15, 1807]

Description: Copy of transcript for a statement by Moses Austin regarding the account with John F. Merieult, in which Austin reports that accounting records from Merieult have repeatedly contained discrepancies between sales recorded and actual sales rendered. Austin also reports that he was charged for commission on lead shipments that he did not authorize. However, Austin concludes that Merieult likely has no knowledge of these mistakes and assumes that the matter can be easily resolved.
Date: June 15, 1807
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

[Transcript of observations on the account of Stephen Austin against his brother's business Moses Austin and Co., June 1802]

Description: Copy of transcript of observations on the account of Stephen Austin against his brother's business Moses Austin and Co. in which charges made by Stephen and Charles Austin were admitted and rejected in the settlement of business matters concerning the family's lead mine in Virginia.
Date: June 1802
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
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