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F. Randall, special agent, who is at
Galveston waiting telegraphic orders, there being no telegraphic
communication with Brownsville, and the necessity for military
protection to the public moneys represented as urgent.
Please favor me with a copy of such instructions as you may give, in
order that they may be communicated to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Yours, truly,
EDWIN M. STANTON,
_Secretary of War_.

POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT, CONTRACT OFFICE,
_Washington, February 3, 1868_.
The Honorable the SECRETARY OF WAR.
SIR: It has been represented to this Department that in October last a
military commission was appointed to settle upon some general plan of
defense for the Texas frontiers, and that the said commission has made
a report recommending a line of posts from the Rio Grande to the Red
River.
An application is now pending in this Department for a change in the
course of the San Antonio and El Paso mail, so as to send it by way
of Forts Mason, Griffin, and Stockton instead of Camps Hudson and
Lancaster.


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