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 our colony, but as soon as he had passed the line he had losses. After an absence of nearly three months within the colony and amongst the Indians, I returned to New Braunfels.

With my report of January 19th, 1847, I had already tendered my resignation irrevocably to the leading director in Europe, stating that as soon as I had shown the possibility of surveying and settling the colony, all the Indians notwithstanding, I would turn over my office to any one having authority to take it.

On the 20th of July, 1847, I turned the office over to Mr. H. Spiess, as my successor.

It is not pretended that the foregoing pages contain a history of the German Emigration Company. To write a history it needs more time, more study, more documents; they contain only a simple answer to the questions propounded by the court, given from memory and such documents as I could get hold of, to the best of my knowledge and belief. Some of it must naturally be guess work, but inasmuch as the basis are underrated estimates, and the actual expenses were unavoidably higher, it will not fall very far from the truth.

3.—Do you know anything of an agreement made between the said German Emigration Company, under any of its names, or between the members thereof, or between the agents employed by the Company on one part, and the emigrants introduced into Texas by the Company under the contract with H. E. Fisher and Burchard Miller in relation to the quantity of land such emigrants were to receive after their emigration, and in consequence thereof?

If yea, state particularly all you know about such agreement, what were its terms, when and where made, and how was it consented to by the emigrants?