The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897 Volume 2 Page: 121
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Laws of the Republic of Texas.
121
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Appropriating fifteen thousand dollars for the Post Office Department.
Whereas, by an act of the present Congress, an appropriation of
twenty-five thousand dollars has been made for the Post Office.
Department, and as the duties of the said Department have been.
increased, many new routes established. and weekly mails substituted
for bi-veekly, and as these increased duties have been imposed
upon said Department since the appropriation of twenty-five
thousand dollars was made, and as no appropriation has been made
to meet the increased expenditures mentioned: Therefore. to enable
the Post Office Department to execute the above mentioned
duties,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
Republic of Texas in Congress assembled, That fifteen thousand
dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to defray the increased
expenditures of the Post Office Department for the year
eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, and that the Secretary of the
Treasury be authorized and required to issue this amount for the.
purposes herein named.
JOHN M. HANSFORD,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
DAVID G. BURNET,
President of the Senate.
Approved, January 26, 1839.
MIRABEAU B. LAMAR.
AN ACT
Changing the time of holding the County Courts of Shelby
County and Jasper County.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the Republic of Texas in Congress assembled, That
from and after the first day of March next, the County Court.(121)
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897 Volume 2, book, 1898; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6726/m1/125/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .