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now relieved be supplied by at least three infantry men from Houston & than an order be issued allowing me the use of two of the Government horses now at Galveston soon to be en route for San Antonio.

In the present excited state of the public minds urged on to some extent at this point by the municipal authorities I hardly consider my life safer without this protection of the soldiers asked for. 

Very Repsectfully
Your Obd't Serv't
Enon M Harris
S.A. Comm'r.