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32 Company, by the emigrants of said Company, it was made in good faith and in consequence and fulfillment of the original agreement between emigrant and Company at or before their introduction. The form of that original agreement may have been wrong, but the intent and meaning was perfectly clear. The consideration for which the emigrants had to transfer half of their colony lands or land certificates was the trouble and expense the Company had incurred, the promises which they had held out, a great many of which had been fulfilled with a heavy loss of money and no gain whatever, and the right of the Company to stipulate for a transfer of half the land or non-acceptance of the colonist.

Sworn to and subscribed.

ABBREVIATIONS.

1. Coll. Doc, 1845.—Collected Documents of the Association for Protection of German Emigrants. Mainz, 1845.

2. Hd. bk., 1845.—Texas: A Hand-book for German Emigrants of the Association, etc. Bremen, 1845.

3. Hd. bk., 1846.—Same, second edition. Bremen, 1846.

4. The German Settlement in Texas. Bonn, 1845.

5. White.—John P. White, printed brief for appellees in Supreme Court of Texas, Austin term, 1870-1871, printed in Seguin, Texas.

6. Roemer's Texas.—Dr. F. Roemer's Texas, with special reference to German Emigration. Bonn, 1849.

7. Roemer, Dr. F.—The Cretaceous Formation of Texas. Bonn, 1852.