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. On November 13 delegates voted to create a regular army and named Sam Houston its commander-in-chief in an effort to attract volunteers from the United States soldiers would be granted land bounties This provision was significant as all public land was owned by the state or the federal government indicating that the delegates expected Texas to eventually declare independence. Houston was given no authority over the volunteer army led by Austin which predated the Consultation. Houston was also appointed to the Select Committee on Indian Affairs Three men including Austin were asked to go to the United States to gather money volunteers and supplies the delegates elected Henry Smith as governor on November 14 the Consultation adjourned leaving Smith and the Council in charge. 2.2 Asia Houston Texas Business Directory 1.6 Hurricane Katrina. Counties included are Anderson Angelina Bowie Camp Cass Cherokee Delta Franklin Gregg Hardin Harrison Henderson Hopkins Houston Jasper Jefferson Lamar Marion Morris Nacogdoches Newton Orange Panola Polk Rains Red River Rusk Sabine San Augustine San Jacinto Shelby Smith Titus Trinity Tyler Upshur Van Zandt and Wood County Texas, Lumber became a large part of the port's exports with merchandise as its chief import the Houston Post was established in 1880 the Houston Chronicle followed on August 23 of that year Former U S President Ulysses Grant came to Houston to celebrate the opening of the Union Station which had rail links with New Orleans Fifth Ward residents threatened to secede from Houston because they felt they already had been separated an iron drawbridge built in 1883 pacified them and they did not secede in 1887 the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word established a hospital that would become St Joseph Hospital, The Texas Department of Criminal Justice operates some correctional facilities in Harris County including:. 1 Background Write-in Various candidates Various candidates 51,261 0.57% 0 Alicia (1983). Commissioner Precinct 4 R Jack Cagle Republican, Low rise granite building composed of three large blocks with horizontal banding it has a large glassed entrance that is rounded at the top. Several private institutions of higher learning are located within the city Rice University the most selective university in Texas and one of the most selective in the United States is a private secular institution with a high level of research activity. Founded in 1912 Rice's historic heavily wooded 300-acre (120-hectare) campus located adjacent to Hermann Park and the Texas Medical Center hosts approximately 4,000 undergraduate and 3,000 post-graduate students to the north in Neartown the University of St Thomas founded in 1947 is Houston's only Catholic university St Thomas provides a liberal arts curriculum for roughly 3,000 students at its historic 19-block campus along Montrose Boulevard in southwest Houston Houston Baptist University (HBU) founded in 1960 offers bachelor's and graduate degrees at its Sharpstown campus the school is affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas and has a student population of approximately 3,000, Angelina County (86,771), In 1950 the availability of air conditioning provided impetus for many companies to relocate to Houston where wages were lower than those in the North; this resulted in an economic boom and produced a key shift in the city's economy toward the energy sector.

In 2012 the city was ranked number one for paycheck worth by Forbes and in late May 2013 Houston was identified as America's top city for employment creation. ; 4.8 Allies close in (1944) Sports, (31) 84 acrylonitrile - cancer benzene - cancer.