The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-02-13


Leave West Prairie every Thursday at g IA; arrive
at Grand Prairie next day BY D "A.
!. Leave Grand Prairie every Saturday al D 10 ar
rive at West Prairie next day by 0pm.
NOTES
l. Seven minutes are allowed for opening and clos
ing the mails at all Offices, where particular time
is specified.
g Post Office blanks, and mail bags are to be con-
veyed without further charge mail lines admitting
Of such conveyance.
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-ourtb part OF it, when the running or ar
rival is far behind time 10 lose the connection
with depending mail and forfeiture Of due
proportion of II, when grade OF service Is rendered
inferior to that in the contract These iorieitures
may be increased into penalties higher amount &c.
cording the nature frequency Of the failure and
tie importance of the mail
4. Fines will be imposed unless the delinquency
be satisfactorily explained in due time, for failing to
take from or deliver at post Office the mail, any
part of it for suffering it TO be wet injured lost,
destroyed for conveying il in place or manner that
exposes it to depreciation, loss, injury and for not
arriving at the time set And for setting up or run
ming an express TO transmit commercial intelligence
in advance of the mail, penalty will be exacted
equal TO quarters pay
5. The Postmaster General may annul the contract
for repeated failures for violating the Post Office
laws for dsobeyDg the instructions OF the DEPART
dured by the Department for assigning the con-
tract without the consent Of the Postmaster Gene
rail- for setting up or running an express as aiore-
said.
g. The Postmaster General may alter the contract,
and alter the schedule, he allowing pro rata in
crease of compensation within the restrictions inn
posed by law, for the additional service required, or
for the Increased speed, if the employment Of addi-
tiona stock carriers is rendered necessary but the
contractor may in such case renqush the contract,
| on If q Drefere IL the change. He
| may also discontinue curtai the service he al.
| lowing one months extra pay on the amount dis
| pensed with.
T. The payments will be made through drafts on
post Offices otherwise after the expiration Of each
quarter, say in February, May, August, and Novem-
| Der.
g. The distances are gipen according TO the best i,or-
nation bat reased pay ,oiH be ao,oed, should they
prors be greater than is advertised ye places are cor
| rectfy named.
| 9. 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, proposed to enter
into any combination, to prevent the making OF amy
bid for mail contract by any other person or per
sons or who shall have made any agreement or shall
have given performed, promised to give or per-
form, any consideration to do, or not to do, anything
whatever to induce any other person moi to bid for
| mail contract.
! 10. bid received after time, TO wit the 18th
April next al 3 p. m, without the guarantee re-
CURED by law that combines several routes m
| one sum of compensation cannot be considered IN
competition with regular proposal, not adjudged to
| be extravagant.
| H. A bidder may propose different days and hours
| of departure and arrival, provided no more running
time is asked and it is obvious that no mail connec
ton other public accommodation Is preJudIce6.-
He may ask for specified number OF days for more
running time the trip al certain Of peculi
arly bad roads But beyond these changes, propo-
sal for service different fran the advertisement will
prevent its being considered in competition with
regular bid, not sci aside for extravaganza; and
where a bid contains any OF the above alterations,
their disadvantages viii be estimated in comparing il
with other proposals.
L. There should be but one route bid for in pro-
posal.
- The route, the service, the yearly pay, the bid
ders name and residence, and the name OF each
member OF the firm, where company oilers, should
be distinctly stated.
H. The following is the form of the guaranty
which should be filed the FIST blank with the name
of the guarantor the second with that of the bidder
and the third and fourth with the beginning and ter
minating points of the route and after being dated,
should be signed by the guarantor who must be sworn
by the written certificate of postmaster, or other
equally satisfactory testimonial, TO be Of pro-
perry, and able to make good his guaranty. This
guaranty, so certified, should accompany each bid.
"The undersigned - guarantees that - if
his bid for carrying the mail from - 10 - be
accepted by the Postmaster General, --- shall en-
ter into an obligation prior TO the lst day OF July
next, with good and sufficient suretes 10 perform the
service proposed
Dated ---p
Is. The bid should be sent under seal, addressed TO
the First Assistant Postmaster General, with " Mail
Proposals in the State of - written on the face
Of the letter. and should be despatched in time to be
received by before the 18th April next at
O'Clock, p. M
I6. The contracts are to be executed before the
lst July next
Posr OrrIcr DEPARTMENT,
January pc, l643.
CHARLES A. WICKLlFFE.
Jan. 30-laN1lw
RICHARD THOMPSON'S LIFE PRESERFER