NP, NOTP 3/19/1861

From the New Orleans Times Picayune
 
March 19, 1861
 
Texas Convention
[Special Correspondence of the Picayune]
Austin, Texas, March 11, 1861   7 P. M.
   Pursuant to the adjournment of this morning, the convention met this evening at the appointed hour.
   Mr. Robinson, chairman of the Committee of Public Safety made a report giving information of the surrender to the commissioners, under the Committee of Public Safety, of the U. S. Revenue cutter Henry Dodge, by Lieut. W. F. Rogers, who was in command; and also, in reference to an agreement between that committee and A. M. Gentry {President, Texas & New Orleans RR}, for the payment of duties on railroad iron under his contract to the State of Texas, and on board a vessel outside the port of Galveston; *****

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