The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1841-02-05


10. The payments will be mad. through drafts on
post Offices OF oherWiseaiter the expiration Of each
quarter, say in February, May, August, and Now
IL. The distances are given according to the best
information; but no increased pay will be allowed,
should they prove to be greater than Is advertised,
II the places are correctly named.
IL. The Postmaster General Is prohibited by law
from knowingly making contract for the transport
tailon OF the mail with any person who shall have
entered into any combination, 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 performed, or promised to give
or perform, any consideration TO do or not 10 do,
any thing whatever to induce any other person not
to bid for mail contract
/ l3. On coach routes where the present contrac-
tor shall be superseded by an underbdder, who
may not have the stage property requisite for the
performance of the contract, he shall purchase from
the present contractor such of his ceaches teams,
and harness beOngingtO the route as shall be need
ed and may he suitable for the service, at a fair
valuation; and make payment therefor by reason
able instruments as his pay becomes due, unless
the present contractor shall continue to run stages
on the route. Should they not agree 10 the suita-'
beness of the property, the terms or the security,
each may choose person who may appoint thru
and their decision shall be fnal 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
ofthe underbddcr will be accepted Internationally.
The undcrhidder should rive early notice of his in
tenton to take or not to take the stock, and if the
latter, of his reasons; and the present contractor is
to determine, on the first application, whether he
will sell it or not
II. A bid received after time, 10 wit; the 10Th
April next at 3 p. m. or without the guarantee re-
qurcd by law; or that combines several routes in
in one sum of compensation, cannot be considered
competition with regular proposal, not adjudged
to be eXtrayagant.
Is. a bidder may offer on COACH railroad, or
steamboat routes where that transportation is dlf-
fcult or mpracllcahie at certain seasons TO subSli-
tnte horse or wagon conveyance or to intermit ser
vice, specified number of days. weeks, or months.
He may propose TO omit i'm office that is inacces-
sible, or is not on the stage road the railway or at
"A steamboat landing, as the case may be- or he may
offer TO substitute IN inferior mode of supply in
such cases. He 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 IL
preiudiced, He may ask for specified nunbcr of
days for more running time TO the trip at certain
seasons of peculiar bad roads Rnt beyond these
changes, proposal Tor service different from the
advertisement will prevent its being considered in
competition with regular bid, not set aside for eX-
travugance; and where a bid contains an, of the
above alterations, their disadvantages will be cs,i-
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 aud residence, and the name of each
member of the firm where Il company offers, should
be distinctly stated
Is. The following is the form Of the guaranty
which should be filled, the first blank with the name
olthe guarnnor, the second with that Of the 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 gunranror, who mus.
be shown by the written certificate of postmaster
to be man of property, and able to make good his
guaranty. This guaranty, so certified, should &c
company each bid,
" The undersigned - guarantees that - ifhiS bid
for carry ing the mail from - 10 - he accepted by
the Postmaster General shall cutc into obligation prior
to the lit du Of June nest with good and sufficient
ties, To perform the service proposed"
Dated
The hid should be under seal addressed to the First
Assistant Postmaster General, with Mail Proposals in the
State of -h written the hce Of the letters und
should he despatched in time he received BY before
the lcth April next, AT O'Clock, pm.
90 The contracts to be executed before the lhh June
next. JOIN NJ. NILES.
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Dee 2a, l5lO l9s--49