Ordinances and Decrees of the Consultation, Provisional Government of Texas and the Convention, Which Assembled at Washington March 1, 1836. Page: 69
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office where he is employed, he shall, on conviction
thereof, forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars
for every such offence; and if any other person shall
open any mail or packet of newspapers, or shall embezzle
or destroy the same, not being directed to himself,
or not being authorized to receive or open the same, he
shall, on conviction thereof, pay a sum not exceeding
fifty dollars for every such office; and if any person
shall take or steal any packet, bag, or mail of newspapers
from or out of any post-office, or from any person
having custody thereof; such person shall, on conviction,
be imprisoned not exceedin( three months for every
such offence,: if any person shall enclose or conceal a
letter or other thing, or any memorandum in writing in
a newspaper, or among any package of newspapers
which he shall have delivered into any post-office, or to.
any person for that purpose in order that the same may
be carried by post fiee of letter postage, he shall forfeit
the sum of ten dollars, for every such offence, and the
letter, newspaper, package, memorandum or other thing
shall not be delivered to the person to whom it is directed
until the amount of double letter postage is paid
for each article of which the package shall be composed:
when the mode of conveyance and size of the mail will
admit it, magazines and pamphlets may be transported.
in the mail at three cents a sheet for any distance, not
exceeding fifty miles; for any distance over fifty and not
exceeding one hundred miles, six and one-fourth cents.
and ten cents for any greater distance.
SEC. 22. Be it further ordained and decreed, That the
Postmaster-General be authorized to allow to the, postmasters
respectively, such commission on the monmes
arising from the postage of letters, as shall be adequate
to their respective services End expenses: provided, that
the said commission shall' not exceed thirty per centon
the first hundred dollars, a.nd twenty-five per cen.ton
a sum over one hundred and not exceeding threehundred
dollars, and twenty per cent. on any sum over
four hundred dollars and not exceeding two thousand
dollars, and eight per cent. on any sum collected, being
over two thousand four hundred dollars--except to postmasters
ewho may be employed in receiving and despatching
foreign mails, whose compensation may be aug
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Texas (Republic). Secretary of State. Ordinances and Decrees of the Consultation, Provisional Government of Texas and the Convention, Which Assembled at Washington March 1, 1836., book, 1838; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth45353/m1/69/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .