6The postmaster at Austin was to make up a mail for Victoria on
the same day, and Gonzales was to be made a distributing office for
Victoria, and San Antonio. (Gammel, Laws
of
Texas,
II, 369.) Janu-
ary 5, 1840, a route was established from Colonel Harvey Jones' to
Comanche, and the postmaster-general was authorized to contract for
carrying the mail over this route once a week, provided the expense was
not more than two hundred dollars per year, and that the income from
it would amount to at least fifty dollars per year. (Gammel, Laws
of
Texas,
II, 408.)
