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there would be no further steps taken by the United States Government in regard to the sale of said property, until your advertisement of the 4th of January, 1867, was seen.

Your petitioners have now, in behalf of the citizens of San Antonio, very respectfully to ask you to suspend action under the advertisement, until an examination into the facts and rights of the case can be had, when it is confidently believed that it will be found that the City never parted with its title to the land, and that it was never the desire of its citizens that it should do so; and that it is now their desire, and by right they ought to have possession of the land.

It is further respectfully requested, that in case you do not feel authorized to take final action in the matter, that you will forward this statement of facts in the case to the proper department with your action thereon, and that the city authorities be notified of the fact, and that they have the privilege of being represented in the investigation, of the case. In order to show that there had been no neglect on the part of the City authorities in asserting their claims in this behalf we would state that a year ago Mayor Cleveland, by authority of the City Council corresponded with Geo W. Paschal Esg., then in Washington City, with a view of having the matter then investigated, and