The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1841-02-12
10. The payments will be made through drafts OIL

10. The ayments will be made through drafts OIL
post offices otherwise ,alter the expiration of each
quarter, say in February, May, August, and Nov.
II. The distances are given according to the best
informaon but no increased pay will be allowed,
should they prove to be greater than is advertised
if the places are correctly named.
H. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law
from knowingly making contract for the transport
lalon of The mail with any person who shall have
entered into any combinations or proposed to enter
into any combination, to prevent the making OF any
bid for mail contract by any other person or per-
sons, or who shall have made any agreement, or
shall have given or performed, promised to give
or perform, any consideration to do, or not TO do,
any thing whatever to induce any other person not
to bid for mail contract
10. On coach routes where the present contrac-
tor shall be superseded By an underbidder, who
may not have the stage property requisite for the
performance of the contract, he shall purchase from
the present contractor such of his coaches, teams,
and harness belongngt to the route shall be need
ed and may be suitable for the service, at fair
valuation; and make payment therefor by reason
able instruments, as his pay becomes due, unless
the present contractor shall continue TO stages
on the route. Should they not agree to the suita-
blencss of the property the terms, or the security,
each may choose person who may appoint third
and their decision shall be final; or the Postmaster
General will name the umpire. Should the UNDER
bidder fail to comply, his bid will be offered to the
contractors but should he decline it, the proposals
oftle underbdder will be accepted Internationally.
The underbidder should give early notice of his in
tention to take not TO take the stock, and il the
latter of his reasons and the present contractor is
to determine, on the first application, whether he
will sell it or not
! II. bid received after time, to wit: the 10th
April next at p. m. or without the guarantee re-
quired by law; or that combines several routes in
in one sum of compensation, cannot be considered
competition with regular proposal, not adJudsed
to be extrayagunt.
Is. bidder may offer on COACH railroad, or
steamboat .outes, where that transportation is di,
icu or inpract!cable at certain seasons, to snbsl-
tute horse or wagon conveyance, or 10 intermit SER
vice, specified number of days. weeks, or months.
lie may propose to omit an office that is nacces-
sbIe, or is not on the stage road the railway, or at
a steamboat landing, rs the case may be, or he may
offer to substitute an inferior mode of supply in
such cases lie may propose different days and
hours of departure and arrival, provided no more
running time is asked, and it is obvious that no
mail connection or other public accommodation II
preludccd. lie may ask for specified number of
days for more running time to the trip at certain
seasons of peculiar bad roads. But beyond these
changes, a proposal for service different from The
advertisement will prevent its being considered in
competition with regular bid not set aside for en-
travagance; and where bid contains an, of the
above alterations, their disadvantages will be esti-
mated in comparing it with other proposals.
IS. There should be but one route bid for in
proposal.
II. The route, the service, the yearly pay, the
bidders name and residence, and the name OF each
member of the firm where company offers, should
be distinctly stated.
Is. The following is the form Of the guaranty
which should be filed the first blank with the name
of the guaranror, the second with that ofihe bidder;
and the third and fourth with the beginning and
terminating points of the route; and after being da-
ted, should be signed by the guarantor, who mus,
be shown by the written certificate of a postmaster,
or other equally satisfactory testimonial, to be
man of property, and able to make good his guar
amy. This guaranty, so certified, should accom-
pany each bid,
The undersigned - guarantees that - il his bid
for carry Ing the mail from - 10 - he accepted by
the Iu7tgaslc Gcpcral shall enter into an Ohgn"m rror
10 tue l. w nav ol June n NJ i -u dHu sultltNt sure
ties, to perform the service proposed"
'Datcl
The bid should he sent under seal addressed to the First
Assistant Postmaster General with Mail Proposals in the
State of - written the face Of the letter; ard
should he despatched in time to be received by before
the lCth April NEXT at 3 o'clock pm.
90 The contracts To be executed before The Eth June
next. JOIN VI. NlIEs.
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Dec. 22, 1880. [3s-49