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Autograph Letter, signed by Stephen Powers

Title: Autograph Letter, signed by Powers, to James Logan, on the back of a letter sent to Powers from R.C. Trumble, responding to an inquiry Powers made for Logan about land claims
Author: Powers, Stephen
Description: In ink, on both sides of 12¼x7¾.Stephen Powers, 1814-1882, a lawyer, diplomat and judge, who settled in Brownsville in 1849 after serving at Matamoros, Tamaulipas, as a member of the United States Military Commission for the Government of Occupied Territory, and there founded a law firm and played a key role in merging civil and common law in the establishment of land titles in the disputed area between the Nueces and the Rio Grande. The present exchange reflects those duties, and enquiries made of R.C. Trimble, surveyor of Starr County, who responds that "I have located & surveyed the claims in question... I can forward the field notes to Austin with the claims attached in the proper way...if he will arrange to transmit the fees as agreed on by his his [sic] brother for locating, surveying etc..."
Heading: (Texas)Place Published: Rio Grande City & Brownsville
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Date Published: Sept. 20 and Sept. 29, 1852