Ordinances and Decrees of the Consultation, Provisional Government of Texas and the Convention, Which Assembled at Washington March 1, 1836. Page: 68
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the parties concerned, and at the expiration of the next
three months, shall send such of the letters as then remain
on hand as dead letters, to the General Post-Office,
where the same shall be opened and inspected; and if
any valuable papers or matters of consequence shall be
found therein, it shall be the duty of the Postmaster-General,
through his deputies, when he shall have ascertained
the residence of the writer or writers thereof; through
his deputies to return them; or, if after a descriptive
list thereof has been published in one of the newspapers
published at the place most convenient to the supposed
residence of the twner, if witliin T exas, the person or
persons to whom such letter or letters may have been
directed and intended, shall make application therefor, it
shall be the duty of the Postmaster-General or any of his
deputies,' upon being satisfied that the applicant is the
proper owner, to deliver them to such person or persons
upon the postage and expense of publication being paid;
and in either case to require fiom persons so receiving
letters, to receipt to the Posstmaster-GeneraI thereforspecifying
in such receipt, that it is for such letter or
letters as may have been advertised and described;
and if neiilier the writer or individual to whom the letter
is addressed, shall not make demand in their own
proper person or lawful agent, within two years after the
advertisement thereof, as aforesaid, the said contents
shall be applied to the use of Texas, until the same
shall be reclaimed -by the proprietor thereof; and the
manner of such application to be specially stated by the
Postmaster-General to the Executive Office.
SEC. 21. Be it further ordained and decreed, That all
newspapers conveyed in the mail shall be under cover,
open at one end, and charged with a postage of one cent
each, for any distance not more than fifty miles, and
one and a half cent each for any greater distance; and
that the Postmaster-General and his deputies shall require
those who receive newspapers by post, to pay the
postage quarterly, i4 advance. If any person employed
in any department of the Gerieral -Post-Office, shall improperly
degtip, delay, hinder, embezzle or destroy any
newspaper, 'tr shall permit any other person to do
the like, or shall open or permit any other person to open
any mail or packet of newspapers not directed to the
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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/m1/68/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .