~	and irrorisonment of Commissioner
fill the vacancy. ^aaero,_______iiiifr-tii# latter part of December, 1850,
reached oiU3u-J^iA«i-7;w105l, where ho spent soma time with Colonel -no:3Trlsri whom he consulted as to the best mode of proceeding in his new mission. Instead of establishing his office at ilacog-doches, as Padilla has. done, he proceeded to Liberty, on the Trinity hiver, established his office, created the municipality of Liberty, and held an election for alcalde and members of the *j.yuntatiemto of the municipality. Having organized the government, he took necessary measures to have the lands of
the settlers surveyed................—Johnson, Texas :and Texans, y.
I, pp. 67-8.--
The municipality of Brazoria was created from the southern portion of the municipality of Austin by act of i.lay 1, 1852, with the town of Brazoria as capital. Como of its extensive territory went to the municipality of Matagorda in 1854, and in the same year other legislation directed the removal of the capital to Columbia and a change of name to municipality of Columbia. The provisional government of 1855 restored the old name and changer the capital to Brazoria. An act of the republic on Doc. 20, 1856, fixed the name Brazoria as the county designation. The county limits have been-practically unchanged since the creation of Port Bend County in Dec., 1837, ana of Galveston County in Hay, 1828. The Congress on Dec. 14, 1837, settler the county-seat contest between Brazoria and Columbia in .favor of the former. Columbia, Velasco and Brazoria were all incorporated as towns oy the congress of the republic in
1857..........................
Of the three original towns Velasco has best held its own through the changing conditions of fourscore years. It came into nominal existence withe the establishment of the Mexican port and custom house in 1831; in 1832 it was the scene of a battlo which opened the war between Texas and Mexico; it was a rendezvous for Texas troops during the revolution, and was
made a port of entry by the provisional government...........
—Johnson, Texas end Texans,"V. 2, p. 648.--