The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-25

MAILS TO GALVESTON

MAILS TO GALVESTON.
PROPOSALS to carry the mails Of the United
i States, from the LIST Of March, lS46, to the 2sii
Of February, 1850, with right TO the department tc
extend TO the Goth Of June 1850, from Nsr Orleans
IN Louisana 10 Galveston, u, 1sras, 450 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-
yeyance, whether by steamship or samg-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 OF
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 Sd
lS45, those proposals (belng acceptable in Other
respects) win be preferred which shall engage to
carry the mail in asteam ship or ships and shall
stipulae to deliver said ship ships to the United
States, or to their proper officer, on demand made
for the purpose of being converted into vessel oil
vessels Of war; the United States being bound or
their part to pay the fair full value thereof at the
time Of delivery, to be ascertained by four APP
praisers--appointed, two by the President of the
United States, and two by the owner or owners
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 tho mail more frequently
than once a week.
Articles Of contract are to be executed by the ac-
cepted bidder and by his suretes by or before the frs
day of March next. The contract il to provide
among other things, that the pay of the trip is to bs
forfeited when the trip is not performed, and due
proportion when grade Of service is rendered in
ferior to that specified in the contract and that fines
may be imposed, unless the delinquency be salts
factoriy explained in due time, for failing to take
FROM to deliver into, the post Office at the port
landing, the mail belonging thereto, or any part o.
said MALL for suffering the mail, any part of it, tc
be wet, injured, lost, destroyed; for conveying
in place or that exposes it to depreciation
convey mail by any additional steamship or YES
sci run by the contractor on the route, over ant
above the specified number of trips in the contract
and for not arriving at the time set also for transmit
ting intelligence, furnishing the of trans
hitting intelligence, in advance of the mail. The
Postmaster General may annul the contract for re-
peated failures; for violating the post Office laws; fol
disobeying the instructions of the department; fol
refusing to discharge carrier when required by
the department.; for assigning the contract without
the Of the Postmaster Genera or for setting
up or running an express, as aforesaid.
The Postmaster General may alter the contract
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 OF
for the increased speed, if the employment of adj
ditiona sto.k carriers is rendered necessary bu
the contractor may such case, relinquish the con-
tract, on timely notice. if he prefers it to the change
The Postmaster General may also discontinue OF
curtail the service, he allowing one months extra
pay on the amount dispensed with; and the contrac
''msy at any time be terminated by joint resolution
Of the two houses of Congress-"
The route, the service, the yearly pay, the bid
dcr's name and residence, and the name Of each
member of tho firm where company offers, should
be distinctly stated in the proposals.
The following is the form Of the guarantee, which
should be filled, the first blank with the Of the
guarantor; the second with TINT of the bidder and
the third and fourth with the beginning and term
mating points of the route; and, after being dated
should be signed by the guarantor, who must BIZ
shown, by the written certificate of postmaster OF
other equally satisfactory testimonial, 10 be mar
of property, and able to make good his guarantee
This guarantee, SO certified, should accompany eacf
bid
sThe undersigned -, guarantees that ----, i
ais bid for carrying the mail from ---- to - bt
accepted by the Postmaster General, ---- shall en-
ter into an obligation prior TO the LIST day of Marcf
next, with good and sufficient sureties, to perform
the service proposed
"Dated ----."
The bid should be sent under seal to the FRS
Assistant Postmaster General, and the words "Mai
proposals. Galveston mall" written on the face o
the letter, and should be despatched in time to b,
received by or before the 25th day Of January next
which will be the last day for receiving proposals
under this advertisement.
G.. JOHNSON,
Postmaster General
PosT OrrIcE DEPARTMENT.,
Washington, October IL, l845.
p. S.-If. the bidder shall not consider himsel
able, or prepared, to commence service as early al
the LIST Of March next, he will specify in his propo
sails the day on which he will put the service in ope
ration. c. J.
October l1--lawtD31