ral offices once in every three months, or oftener if he think proper, showing the balance thereon in favor or against the Geneml Post-Office; he shall pay all necessary expenses in- cident to the General Post-Office in consequence of mails, col- lection of the revenue, and in the general management there- of, _from the incomes of the General Post-Office Department, if the receipts thereof be sufficient, otherwise he shall report the deficiency to the Governor of the Provisional Government, who shall submit the same to the legislative power for provid- ing ways and means for such deficiency; he shall prosecute, or cause to be prosecuted, all offences against the "General Post-Office" establishment; he shall render an account, cur- rent, to the "Provisional Government of Texas" once in every three months, of all the receipts and expenditures in the said Department, to be adjudicated and settled as other public accounts, at the same time stating generally the conditon of the Department, suggesting such improvements as, in his opinion, may be useful ancl necessary-and he shall render his first quarterly accounts on the first day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six; he shall have a general superintend- ence of the business of the said Department in all the dutiP,S that are or may be assigned to it-provided, that in case of the death, resignation or removal from office of the "Postmaster- General," all the duties of the Department shall be performe<l by his assistant or chief clerk, until a successor shall be ap- pointed to take charge of the General Post-Office Depart- ment. • SF.c. 2. Be it further ordained and decreed, That the Post-Master-General, and all assistants, clerks and post-mas- ters, and other persons employed in and about the Depart- ment, or in the care, custody, or conveyance of their mail.~, shall previous to entering upon the respective duties assigned to them, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation in addition to the oaths required of all officers of the Govern- ment, before some person legally authorized to adrp.inister oaths: "That I will faithfully perform all the duties required lf me and abstain from everything forbidden by the laws, in rela- tion to the establishing of a General Post-Office and Post- Roads." SEO. 3. Be it further ordained and decreed, That the
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