The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-02-22
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| NOTES.
/. Seven minutes are allowed for opening and
closing the mails at all Offices, where no particular
| lime is specified, bat railroad and steamboat
routes there is to be delay than is necessary
to deliver and receive the bags
| The mail Is TO be conveyed IN preference 10
passengers and to their entire exclusion, If Its weight
and bulk require 1t.
3. A preference is to be given to passeng rs
brought in the connecting mail lines over those
travelling in any other
| Post Office banks, mail bags, and The special
agents of the Department, on the exhibition OF their
credentials, are to be conveyed without further
charge on mail lines admitting OF such convey ance.
| 5. 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 assort
ing and safe. keeping of the mail, is to be provided
by the contractor under the direction of the De-
| .rtment
6. In all cases, there is to be forfeiture of the
pay of the trip, when the trip is not run; forfeiture
Of at east one-iourth part Oft when the running
arrival is far behind time to lose the connection
with depending mail; and forfeiture of due
proportion of it, when grade OF vice is rendered
inferior 10 that in the contract. These forfeitures
may be increased into penalties of higher amount,
according to The nature or frequency OF the failure
and the Importance of the mail.
7. Fms will be imposed, unless the delinquency
be satisfactorily explained in due lime, Tor failing
to take from deliver at post Office, the mail, or
any part OF it; for suffering Il to be wst, injured
lost d-stroyed; for conveying ii in place or
manner that exposes It to depreciation, loss or IN
ury; for refusing after demand TO convey mail by
any coach, railroad car, steamboat, which the
contractor regularly runs on the route beyond the
So CITED number o! trips in the contract; and tor
n arriving at the time set And for setting up or
running express to transmit commercial lntelli
grnce in ad vance Of the ma penalty will be
acted equai 10 a quarters pay.
The Postmaster General may annul the
rat for repeated failures; for violating the Post
Office LAWS; for disobcyIng the instructions of The
De, ,artmen'; for refusing to discharge carrier
VIII n equred by the Depar ment; for assigning the
cont act 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 sch, due, he allowing pro rata of
crease of compensation, within the restrictions i'm
posed by law, for the additional service required,
or for tn increased speed, if the employment in
| additional stock carriers is rendered necessary
but the ntractor may, such case, inqu sh the
contract, timely notice, If he prefers IT to the
change He may also discontinue curtail the
service, he al owing months extra pay the
amount dispensed with.
post Offices otherwise, after the expiration of
each quarter, say in February, May, August, and
| November.
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,
if the places are correctly named.
| ~. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law
from knowingly making contract for the transpor
| tation 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 per-
sons, who shall have made any agreement, or
shall have given or performed, or promised to give
or perform, consideration to do, or not to do,
anything whatever to induce any other person not
to bid for mail contract.
49, On coach routes where the present contractor
shall be superseded by an underbidder, who may
not have the stage property requisite for 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
ton; and make payment therefor by reasonable in
staments, as his pay becomes due, unless the pre-
sent contractor shall continue to run stages on the
route Should they not agree as to the sultabeness
of the property, the terms, the security, each
may choose person who may appoint third, and
their decision shall be fina or the Postmaster Gen
eral will name the umpire. Should the underbidder
tractor; but should he decline it, the proposals o
the underbidder will be accepted Internationally
The underbidder should give carly notice of his in
tenton to take not to take the stock and if the
latter Of his reasons; and the present contractor
to determine, on the first application, whether be
will sell it or not.
IA. A bid rec.ived after time, to wit: the l4th
April next at m, without tie guarantee re-
CURED by law; or that combines several routes in
one sum of compensation, cannot be considered in
competition with regular proposal, not adjudged
to be eXtravagant.
IS. A bidder may offer on coach, railroap or
steamboat routes, where that transportation is diff
Gull or mpractcable at certain seasons, to substitute
horse wagon conveyance, to ntermit SERVICE a
specified number of days, weeks or months lie
may propose to omit office that is naccess BILE, or
is not on the sage road, the railway or at steam
boat landing the case may be, or he may offer to
substitute an Inferior mode Of supply in such
He may propose different days and hours of depart
ure and arrival, provided 80 more running time i.
asked, and it is obvious that no mail connection or
other public accommodation is prejudiced. lie
may ask for specified number of days for more
running tine to the trip at certain of Gu
liar bad roads But beyond these changes, pro-
posal for service different iroa the advertise mt
will prevent its being considered in competition
with regular bid, not set aside for extravaganza
and where bid contains any of the above aitera-
tons. their disadvantages will be estimated in
pairing it with other proposals.
| 16. There should be but route bid for in a
proposal.
IL. 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 dIstinc ly stated
l8. The following is the form of the guaranty
VIII oh should be filled, the first blank with the
name of the guaranior the second with that of The
bidder; and the third and fourth with the begin
niDg and terminating points of the route and after
being dated, should be signed by he g'larantor,
who must be shown by the written certificate of a
postmaster other equally satisfactory test mo.
NAL to be man of property, and able to make