The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-24
MAILS TO GALVESTON.

IL 10 carry tnc ulohs u to chNou
j States, from the LIST Of March, 1886 to the 18th
of February, 1885, with right to the department to
extend to the Both of june 1850, from Ns,o Orleans
IN Louisiana, 10 Galveston, Ia IeIas $50 miles and
back, will be received at the Contract Office of the
Post Office Department, until the 25th day OF Jan
uary, lS46, to be decided by the 3lst day OF said
January.
Leave New Orleans every Saturday at 10 a. m,
arrive at Galveston every Monday by 10 a. m.
Leave Galveston every Tuesday at 10 a m,
arrive at New Orleans every Thursday by 10 a m.
The proposals should specify the mode of con-
veyance, whether by steamship, or sallng-packet,
and set forth the size, rate, and description of the
vessel, with sufficient particularly to enable the
decision to be made, on the advice OF the proper
officers of the naval service, whether the same is or
is not convertible into ship-of-war. And special
notice is hereby given, that, agreeaby TO the pro-
visions OF an act Of Congress, approved March ga,
l845, those proposals (belng acceptable in other
respects) will be preferred which shall engage to
carry the mail in a steam ship or ships, and shall
supulae TO deliver said ship or ships to the United
States, or TO their proper officer on demand made,
for the purpose of being converted into vessel or
vessels of war the United States being bound on
their part to pay the fair full value thereof at the
time Of delivery, to be ascertaiDed by four APP
praisers-appointed, two by the President of the
United States, and two by the owner or owners,
with an umpire in case of disagreement, to be APP
pointed by the President of the United States.
He Diuuef may pGOpO5c u uiueICut stHcuuio VI
days and hours tlrun the one above specified. He
may ask for an annual sum of compensation; or, IN
lieu thereof certain proportion of the hostages ac-
cruing on the Matchmaker conveyed over the route
and he may offer to carry the mail more frequently
than once week.
ceped bidder and by his suretes, by or before the first
day Of March next. The contract is to provide,
among other things, that the pay Of the trip is to be
forfeited when the trip is not performed, and due
proportion when grade of service is rendered IN
feror to that specified in the contract and that fines
may be imposed, unless the delinquency be salts
factorily explained in due time for failing to take
from, to deliver into, the post Office at the port of
landing, the mail belonging thereto, any part Of
said mall for suffering the ma or any part OF 1t, to
be wet injured, lost, destroyed; for conveying 1t
in place or that exposes it to depreciation,
loss, or injury; for refusing, after demand made, to
convey mail by any additional steamship or YES
sci run by the contractor on the route, over and
above the specified number of trips in the contract,
and for arriving at the time set also for transmit
ting intelligence, or furnishing the means of trans
hitting intelligence, in advance Of the mail. The
Postmaster General may annu tho contract for re-
peated failures; for violating the post office laws for
dsobeying the instructions Of the department; for
refusing to discharge carrier when required ny
the department; for assigning the contract without
the consent of the Postmaster Genea or for setting
up or running an express, as aforesaid.
nc lOStllldStCT SeneIth may uitcT Couudc',
and alter the schedule, he 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 employment or ad-
dlonal soS or carriers is rendered necessary; but
the contractor may, in such case, relnqush the con-
tract timely notice, if he prefers il to the change
The Postmaster General may also discontinue or
curail the service, he allowing ono months extra
pay on the amount dispensed with; and the contract
"may at any time be Terminated by JOINT resolution
of the two houses Of Congress"
The route, the service, the yearly pay, the bid
ders name and residence, and the name OF each
member of the firm where company offers, should
be distinctly stated in the proposals.
The following is the form of the guarantee, which
should be filed the first blank with the of the
guarantor; the second with that of the bidder; and
the third and fourth with the beginning and termi-
mating points of the route; and, after being dated,
should be signed by the guaranior, who must be
shown, by the written certificate of postmaster, or
| other equally satisfactory testimonial, to be man
Of property, and able to make good his guarantee.
This guarantee, so certified, should accompany each
bid
"The undersigned --, guarantees that -,
mis- bid for carrying the mail from to ---- be
| accepted by the Postmaster General, - shall en-
ter into obligation prior to the LIST day of March
next, with good and sufficient suretics, to perform
the service proposed
"Dated - :" s,
The bid should be sent under zeal to the First
Assistant Postmaster General, and the words EMAIL
praposas--Galveston mail, written on the face Of
the letter, and should be despatched in time to be
received by before the 25th day Of January next
which will be the last day for receiving proposals
under this advertisement.
C. JOHNSON,
Postmaster General
Posr OFFICE DEPARTMENT.,
Washington, October ii, 1845.
P. S--lf the bidder shall not consider himself
able, or prepared, to commence service carly as
the LIST Of March next he will specify in his propo-
sails the day which he will put the service in ope-
ration. C. J.
October ll--lawtD3l