Ordinances and Decrees of the Consultation, Provisional Government of Texas and the Convention, Which Assembled at Washington March 1, 1836. Page: 67
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ing five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding
twelve months.
SEC. 17. Be it J frther ordaine( and decreed, That if
any person shall rip, cut, tear or burn, or otherwise injure
any portmanteau, vallise, or other bag used or directed
to be used by any person acting under the authority
of the Postmaster-General, or any person in
whom his powers are vested, in the conveyance of any
mail, letter, packet, newspaper or pamphlet-or shall
draw or break any staple, or loosen any part of any lock,
chain or strap attached or belonging to any such vallise,
portmanteau or bag with an intent to rob or steal any
mail, letter, packet, newspaper or pamphlet, or to render
either of the same insecure, every such offender upon
conviction shall, for every such offence, pay a sum not
exceeding five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not
exceeding three years, at the discretion of the court before
whom such conviction is had.
SEc. 18. Be it further ordained and decreed, That every
person who shall, from and after the passage of this ordinance,
procure, aid, advise or assist in the doing or
pepeetrating of any of the acts or crimes by this ordinance
forbidden to be done or performed, shall be subject
to the same penalties and punishments as the persons
are subject to, who shall actually do or perpetrate
any of the said acts or crimes, according to the provisions
of this ordinance.
SEC. 19. Be it fiuther oqrdained and decreed, That every
person who shall be imprisoned by a judgment of court,
under and by virtue of the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth
and seventeenth sections of this ordinance, shall
be kept at hard labor, or otherwise shall be fined and
punished as the court may direct.
SEc. 2Q. Be it oqr(ained and decreedc, 4c., That the
postmasters shall respectively publish, at the expiration
of every three months, or oftener, when the PostmasterGeneral
shall so direct, in. one of the newspapers at or
nearest the place of his residence, for three successive
weeks, a list of all the letters rerhIaiing in their respective
offices; or instead thereof, shall make out a number
of such lists and cause them to be posted up at not less
than five of the most public places in their vicinity, as
shall appear to them best adapted for the information of
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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/m1/67/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .