The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-22
-O THE DAILY UNION
MAILS no GALVESTON.

PROPOSALS to carry the mails Of the United
i States, from the LIST of March, 1916, TO the 2oth
of February, 1850, with right TO the department to
extend to the aOth Of June, 1880 from Ns~ Orleans,
ia Louisiana, TO Galveston, in 1sIas, $50 miles and
back, will be received at the Contract Office Of the
Post Office Department, until the 25th day of Jam
uary, 1886, 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 sailing-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 a ship-of-war. And special
notice is hereby given, that, agreeably TO the pro-
visions OF an act of Congress, approved March Sd,
l845, those proposals (being acceptable in other
rcspects) will be preferred which shall engage to
carry the mail in steam ship or ships, and shall
supulate 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 ascertained by four ap-
praisers-apponted, 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.
The bidder may propose different schedule Of
days and hours than the one above specified. lie
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.
Articles Of contract are to be executed by the
cepted bidder and by his srees, by 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, or to deliver into, the post Office at the port Of
landing, the mail belonging thereto, or any part Of
said mail for suffering the mail, or any part of it, to
be wet, injured lost, destroyed for conveying il
in place or manner 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 not 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 annul the contract for re.
peated ailures for violating the post office laws; foI
disobeyng the instructions of the department; fol
refusing to discharge a carrier when required by
the department.; for assigning the contract without
the consent of the Postmaster Genera for setting
The Postmaster General may alter the contract
and alter the schedule, he allowing a pro rata in
crease of compensation, within the restrictions i'm.
posed by law, for the additional service required,
for the increased speed, if the employment of ad.
duonal stock or carriers is rendered necessary but
the contractor may in such case, reinquish the con-
tract on timely notice, if he prefers it to the change
The Postmaster General may also discontinue oil
curail the service, he allowing one 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 guarantor, 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, certified, should accompany each
bid:
"The undersigned -, guarantees that -, j
mis- bid for carrying the mail from 49, to - be
accepted by the Postmaster General, - shall en-
ter into an obligation prior to the st day Of March
next with good and sufficient sureties, to perform
the service proposed
'Dated ----.'
The bid should be sent under seal to the First
Assistant Postmaster General, and the words "Mail
proposas-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.
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT.,
Washington, October IL, lS45.
P. S.--If the bidder shall not consider himself
able or prepared, to commence service as early as
the LIST Of March next, he will specify in his propo-
sails the day which he will put the service in ope-
ratop