The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-10-14
MAILS TO GALVESTON.

pkOPOSALS to carry the mails Of the United
States, from the LIST Of March, 1886, to the 2Sth
OF February, 1850, with right to the department to
extend to the 30th of June, 1885, from sW Orleans,
IN toussiana, % Gavssion in Tsras, $50 miles and
back, will be received at the Contract Office Of the
Post Ofce Department, until the 25th day Of JAN
qary, 1876, to be decided by the 3ls, day of said
January.
Leave New Orleans every Saturday a, 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 s.iling-packe,
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 hereby given, that, agreeably to the pro-
ls45, those proposals Sbeins acceptable in other
respects) will be preferred which shall engage to
carry the mail in steam ship or ships, and shall
stpuate TO deliver said ship ships to the United
States, or 70 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 APP
pralsers--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
days and hours than 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 ne may offer to carry the mail more frequently
than once week.
Articles of contract are to be executed by the ac-
cepted bidder and by his surees by before the first
day Of March next. The contract is TO provide,
among other things, that the pay Of the trip be
forfeited when the trip ia not performed, and due
af
ferior to that specified 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, tho mail belonging thereto, any part Of
said mall for suffering the mail or any part Of it, to
be wet, injured, lost. or destroyed; for conveying i.
in place or manner that exposes II 70 depreciation,
loss 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 ransmit-
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 failures for violating the post office laws for
disobeying the instructions of the department; for
refusing to discharge a carrier when required by
the department.; for assigning the CONTRACT without
the consent Of the Postmaster General or for setting
up or running an express, as aforesaid. ~.
The Postmaster General n,ny alter the contract,
and alter the schedule, he allowing pro RITA 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 Of adj
ditiona stock carriers s rendered necessary; but
the contractor may, such case, relinqush the
tract on timely notice, if he prefers to the change.
The Postmaster General may also discontinue or
curtail 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
der's name and residence, and the name of each
member of the firm where a 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 tho 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, SO certified, should accompany each
bid:
"The undersigned --, guarantees that -, if
his bid for carrying the mail from ---- to --- be
accepted by the Postmaster General, 49, shall en-
ter into obligation prior to the LIST day of March
next, with good and sufficient suretcs, to perform
the service proposed.
"Dated -----."
The bid should be sent under seal to the First
Assistant Postmaster General, and the words EMAIL
osals-CalvestOn 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 he the last day for receiving proposals
80 - 4 c. JOHNSON,
.as3 Postmaster General.
Posr OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
Washington, October ii, 1845.
.NIOTlCE.--Was committed for 90 days, on the