it was signed in harrisburg on the 1st day of april, on april fool's day, by david g. burnett. he said fine, you can have this. you can take whatever land that's not appropriated that you want. they got the 2 thousands. they get three of these. finally they go back and burnett calls him out and says, triplett, i like you, i trust you, and i want you to be an agent for texas. he swears him in as an agent for texas, gives him the $50,000 back, and says buy us, supply us. buy us munitions, purchase what we need, keep records, you can appoint a secretary. he said go on it. so that's what he does. so triplett and william fairfax gray and sterling neblitt go down to galveston to try to get some supplies. in the meantime they had gotten news of the massacre at golead. so now they knew the second largest army in texas had already been destroyed, a few stragglers, a few survivors had come in, and things start going perilous. so these guys go down to galveston. so they sail from -- they ride from harrisburg all the way over here to -- this is a weak pointer. so san jacinto. they sail down

and he runs into david g. burnett. and president burnett says triplett, i need to talk to you about that land. he goes i'm really getting a lot of political heat for it, is there some way we can undo? he said what do you mean undo it? he said it's going to be really unpopular with the soldiers, can we just suspend it? and these are triplett's words. granted they're standing in the middle of san jacinto after a battle. and he says, "i was now prepared to proceed to new orleans and the president came to me to say that great excitement had been created in consequence of him issuing the grant for a section of land on galveston island and he wished to see if on some terms it could not be annulled." not good. "i replied i'd assign half of it to dr. neblitt," who'd gone to the united states," but the president seemed uneasy and said he would only want to temporarily suspend things and then things would get calm and he'd reissue it." he said i'll tell the cabinet, i'll reissue it under the table, don't worry about it. and he s