003_March 1851

for the use and healthful recreation of its Citizens. A portion of the Ground
such as may be required for Educational purposes was tendered to the Trustees
of the Nacogdoches University and has been accepted by them as the site for
their contemplated Collegiates Institution. The public square in connnection
therewith bears the venerated name of the "Father of his Country".

I would redpectfully urge your earnest co-operation with the Treustees
of the Nacogdoches University in carring out so praise worthy an under--
taking---which will tend so materially to the improvement and prosperity of
the town. And future generations will hold in grateful recollection, the
second and best founders of "time honored Nacogdoches".

Nacogdoches
March 26th, 1851.

JOHN FORBES
MAYOR

On motion adjourned subject to a case of the Mayor

H. H. Edwards
Secretary