The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-01-06

Spring Hill to be supplied from Chene, Vile, IS
miles and back, once week
The Village to be supplied from Point Coupee,
q miles and back, once week.
NOTES.
i. Seven minutes are allowed for opening and
closing the mails at all Offices where no particular
Time is specified; but on 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 TO
pas gers and to their entire exclusion, II ITS weight
and bulk require IT,
3. A preference is to BIO given to passeng RS
brought IN the connecting mail lines over those
Travelling in any other.
4. Post Office banks, mail bags, and The special
agents of the Department. on the exhibition OF their
credentials, to be conveyed without further
charge NAL lines admitting of such conveyance
| ). Mail agents are to conveyed without charge
the principal railroad and steamboat lines, where
the size of the mails and the number of tue offices
will require their employment by the Dep. rtment
and in that case separate apartment for the assor-
ing and safe keeping of the mail, is to be provided
| by the contractor under the direction of the De-
partment.
g. In all cases there is to be forfeiture of the
pay Of the trip, when the trip is not run; forfeiture
OF at least one-iourth part oft when the ng or
arrival is so FAR behind time to lose the connection
with depending mail; and forfeiture OF due
proportion Of il, when rade of sevce is rendert
inferior 10 that in the contract. These forfetures
my be increased into penalties of higher amount,
according to he nature frequency of tie failure
and the Importance of the mail.
| z. Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquency
be satisfactorily explained in due time, Tor failing
to take from, or deliver at post Office, the mail or
any part Of it, for suffering to be w.t, injured,
lost, or d stroy ed; for conveying il in place or
manner that exposes It to depreciation, loss, or in
! jury for refusing after demand to convey mail by
any coach, railroad Car, or steamboat, which thu
contractor Regularly the route, beyond the
| spected number OF tripsin the contracts and tor
not arriving a. the time set And for setting up or
running an express to transmit commercial inlelli
gence in adyan Of the mail, penalty will be ex
acted equal TO u quarters pay.
! g. The Postmaster General may annul the con
tract for repeated failures; for violating the Post
Office laws; for disobeylng the instructions of the
! Department; for refusing to discharge carrier
when CURED by the Department; for assigning the
contract without the consent Of The Postmaster Gen
era', or for s,ting up or running an express as
! aforesaid
| The Postmaster General may alter the contract
and alter the sch, due, be allowing pro rata In
crease of compensation, within the Restrictions 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, such case, renqu sh the
change. He may also discontinue or curtail the
service, he al owing ore months extra pay on the
amount dispensed with
| 10. The payments will be made through drafts
post Offices otherwise, after 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 70 be greater than is adyertsed,
| If the places are correctly named.
~. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law
from knowingly making contract for the ranspor-
| tatlon of the mail with any person who shall have
entered into any combination, proposed 10 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
s.all have gwen or performed or promised 10 give
or perform, an, consideration to do, or not to do,
anything whatever to induce any other person not
to bid for a mail contract
10. On coach routes where the present contractor
shall be superseded by an underbidder, who may
not have the stage property requisite Tor the per-
Torrance 9th 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 the
route. Should they not agree to the suitabeness
may choose person who may appoint third. aud
their decision shall be final; the Postmaster Gen
eia will name the umpire. Should the underbdder
fail to comply his bid wi be offered TO The con-
tractor; but should he decline it, the prop sails o
the underbidder will be accepted uncondltionaly
The underbidder should give early notice of his in
iepton to take not to take the stock and if the
after. Of his reasons and the present contractor is
to Diet nine, the first application, Whether DO
will sell it or not
Ia. A bid received after time, TO wit; the 18th
April next at 3 m, or without tae guarantee
CURED by law; or that combines several routes in
one sum of compensation, cannot be consdere in
competition with regular proposal, not adjudged
to be extravsgant
Is. A bidder may offer coach, railroad or
steamboat routes, where that trsnsportation's diff
cult or imprac cable certain seasons, subst tute
horse or wagon conveyance, or TO ntermlt SERVICE
specified number of days, weeks, or months He
may propose to omit office that is naccess Bile, or
is not the sage road the railway, or at steam
boat landing, as the may be, or he may offer TO
substitute inferior mode Of supply in such cases
He may propose different days and hours of depart
ure and arrv.I, provided 10 more running time /,
ask ed, and il is obv that mail connection or
other public accommodation is pre- JUDGED. lie
may ask for specified number Of days for more
running time to the trip at certain of Gu
liar bad roads. But bsyond these changes, pro-
posa for service different from the advertisement
will prevent its being considered in competition
with regular bid, not set aside for extravaganza
and where a bid contains any of the above atera
tons, their Disadvantages will be estimated in com
pairing it with other proposals
16. There should be but one route bid for in
proposal.
H. 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
10. The following is the form of the guaranty
which should be filled, the first blank with the
name of the guarantor, the second with that of the
bidder; and the third and fourth with the begin
ming and terminating points Of the route ; and after
being dated, should be signed by The guarantor,
who must be shown by the written certificate of
postmaster, other equally satisfactory test mo