The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1841-12-29
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miles and back, once a week.
NOTES.
l. Seven minutes are allowed for opening and
closing the mails at all Offices where no particular
lime is specified; but railroad and steamboat
routes there is to be delay than is accessory
to deliver and receive the bags.
2 The mail is TO be conveyed in preference to
pas engers, aud to their entire exclusion, II It's weight
and bulk require il,
3. preference is to be given to passeng rs
brought in the connecting mail lines over those
ling in any other.
A. Post Office banks, mail bags, and the special
agents of the Department., on the exhibition OF their
credentials, to be conveyed without further
charge on II AL lines admitting of such convey ance.
s. Mail agents TO conveyed without charge
on the principal railroad and steamboat lines, where
the size of the mails and the number Of tue Offices
will require their employment by the Department,
and in that separate apartment for the assor-
ing and safe. keeping of thu mail, is to be provided
by the contractor under the direction of the De
psrtment.
6. In all cases, there is to be forfeiture Of the
pay Of the trip, when the trip run forfeiture
of at least one-iourih part Oft when the running or
arrival is so far behind time as to lose the onnecon
with a depending mall and forfeiture OF due
proportion Of it, when grade OF service is renderd
inferior 10 that in the contract These forfeiturts
may be increased into penalties OF higher amount,
according to the nature frequency OF the failure
| and the Importance of the mail
! z Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquency
be sati ,factorily explained in due time, or failing
to take from, or de liver at post office, the mail
any part of It; for suffering i to be w.t INJURED,
| lost, or dt stroyed; for conveying Il IN place or
manner that exposes II to depreciation, loss, or IN
/ ury for refusing after demand 10 convey mail by
any coach, railroad car, or steamboat, which the
contractor regularly runs on the route, beyond the
/ specified number of trips in the contract; and foi
not arriving at the time set And for setting up or
running an express to transmit commercial ntelli
gence in advance OF the mail, penalty Will be ex
acted equal TO quarters pay.
! s The Postmaster General may annu the
tract for repeated failures; for violating the Post
Office laws; for dlsobeylng the Instructions OF the
Department; for refusing 70 discharge carrier
! when required by the Department; for assigning the
contract without The consent Of The Postmaster Gen
eral, or for setting up or running an express as
| aforesaid.
! The Postmaster General may alter the contract,
and alter the scht due, he allowing pro rata in
crease of compensation, within the restrlctiors I'm
posed by law, for the additional service required,
or for the increased speed, if the employ ment OF
additional stock or carriers is rendered necessary
but the contractor may, in such case, renqu sh the
contract timely notice, if he prefers II to The
change. He may also discontinue or curtail the
service, he al owing one months extra pay on the
amount dispensed with
i TO- phe yay me ats Will be made through drafts
on post offices or otherwise, fer the expiration OF
each quarter, say in February, May, August and
November.
/ H. 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
if the places are correctly named.
| 10 The Postmaster General is prohibited by law
! from knowingly making contract for the transpor-
tation Of the mail with any person who shal have
entered into any combination, or proposed 10 enter
! tito any combination, to prevent the making OF any
bid for ms contract by any other person or per-
sons, or who shall have made any agreement, or
shall have given or performed, or promised 10 give
or perform, consideration to do or not to DC,
anything whatever TO induce any other person not
to bid for mail contract.
13 On coach routes where the present contraco or
shall be superseded by underbdder, who may
not have the stage property requisite Tor the per-
Torrance ofthe contract he shall purchase from the
present contractor such of his coaches, teams and
harness belonging TO the route as shall be needed,
and may be suitable for the service, at fair valua
tom and make payment therefor by reasonable in
stalments, as his pay becomes due, unless the pre-
sent contractor shall continue TO run stages on the
route. Should they not agree to the suitabeness
of the property, the terms, or the security each
may choose person who may appoint third. and
their de cision shall be fina the Postmaster Gen
ei al will name the umpire. Should the underbdder
fail to ompy, his bid viii be offered TO The con-
tractor; but should h. decline it, the prop sails
the underbidder will be accepted Internationally.
The underbidder Should give early notice Of his in
ention to take or not to take the stock, and if the
AFTER Of his reasons; nnl the present contractors
to determine, on the first apple atom whet Ell he
will sell it or not.
IA. bid received after time, to wit: the 10th
April next at p M or without TIE guarantee re-
CURED by law; or that combines several routes IN
one sum of compensation cannot be CONSIDERED M
competition with regular proposal, not adJudged
! to be extravagant.
! IS bidder may offer coach, railroad, or
steamboat routes, where that transportation IS diff
cult or mpractcable at certain seasons, TO substitute
| horse or wagon conveyance, or TO inermt service
specified number Of days, weeks, or months lie
NAV propose to unit an office that is naccess bic, or
is not on the sage road, the railway, or at steam
boat landing as the may be, or he may offer TO
substitute an Inferior mode Of supply IN such cases
He may propose different days and hours OF depart
ure and arrival provided no more running time
aske ed, and it is obv GUS that no mali connection or
other public accommodation is preJuilced. lie
NAV ask for specified number of days Tor more
running time to the trip at certain seasons o. GU
| liar bad roads. But beyond these changes a pro-
posal for service different from the advertisement
viii prevent its beng considered in competition
with regular bid, not set aside for extravaganza ;
and where bid contains any OF the above atera
tons their disadvantages will be estimated IN &C m
pairing il with other proposals
16 There should be but one route bid for in
proposal.
IL The route, the service, the yenIy ray, the
bidders name and residence, and the name OF each
member of the firm, where company offers, should
be distinctly stated
10. The following is the form of the guaranty
which should be filed, the first blank with the
rame of the guaranor the second with that OF The
bidder; and the third and fourth with the begin
ming and terminating peins of the route and after
being dated, should be signed by he giarantor,
/ who must be shown by the written certificate OF a
postmaster, or other equally satisfactory testmo'
nal To be a man of property and able to make
good his guaranty rms guaranty, so cer'hsu'
should accompany each bid.
:, The undersigned 49, guarantees that - 1t