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Office of the Private Secty. of the President of the Rep of
Mexo. General-in Chief of the Army of Operation

I Antonio Lopez de S.A. [?] do appear by means
of this Solemn dockument before the Government ad
adterim of the People of Texas for the purpose of making
known thereby that, I am resolved to publish to the
Civilized world the following Protest

I protest against the violation
of the faith engaged in the Agreement made between
me and the Government of Texas signed on the 14th
May ulto and commenced verbally with the General in
Chief of the Army of Texas Samuel Houston and T.J. Rusk
Secretary at War, wherein the following is stipulated:

Here follows the Treaty of May 14, 1836.

I Protest 1stly.
For having been treated more like an
ordinary criminal, than as a prisoner of war, the head of
a respectable Nation, even after the agreements were
commenced

I Protest 2dly. For the treatment as prisoner of war
and ill usage received by the Mexican General Adrian
Woll
, who had come into the Texian camp with a flag
of truce, under the safe guardian word of honor of
Genl. Houston and with the consent of the members of
the Cabinet.

I Protest in the third place against the

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