The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-12-27
MAILS To GALVESTON.

Il JhOIOoAIO 10 curly tuc Hlauo ot tht cp"Ns
States, from the LIST of March, 1886. to the 2olh
Of February, 1850, with right to the department to
extend 10 The 30lh of June, 1850 from Nep Orleans,
in Louisiana 10 Gdfrtsfon, Ia feras, $50 miles and
back, will be received at the Contract Office OF the
Post Office Department, until the Goth day of Jan.
uary, 1916, to be decided by the 3lst day of said
January.
Leave New Orleans every Saturday at 10 u M,
arrive at Galveston every Monday by 10 "a. IN.
| Leave Galveston every Tuesday at 10 a; m. y,
arrive at New Orleans every Thursday by 10 u. m.
The proposals should specify the mode OF cor
veynnce, whethe, by steamship or Salllng-packet,
and set forth the sse, rate and description of the
vessel, with sufficient particularly TO enable the
decision 10 be made, on the advice of the proper
officers of the naval service, whether the same is or
is not convertible into shipAot.wsr And special
notice 10 hereby gwen, that egreeably to the pro-
visions OF an net OF Congress, approved March Sd,
l845, those proposals (being acceptable in other
respects) will be preferred which shall engage to
carry the mail IN steam ship ships, and shall
supulale 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 APP
prais disappointed, 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 above specified. He
may ask for an annual sum of compensation; or, in
lieu thereof, certain proportion of the hostages
cruing on the Matchmaker conveyed over the route
and he maytotfer to carry the mail more frequently
than once u week.
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 to be
forfeited when the trip Is not performed, and due
proportion when grade of service is rendered in
ferior to that specified in the contracts and that fines
may be imposed, unless the delinquency be salts.
factory explained in due time, for failing to take
from, or 10 deliver into, the post Office at the port of
landing, the mail belonging thereto or any part OF
said mall for suffering the mail or any part of it,
be wet, injured lost destroyed; for conveying it
in place or manner that exposes ii to depreciation,
loss, or injury; FOR refusing after demand made, to
convey mail by any additional steamship
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 annu the contract for re-
pcated ailures for violating the post Office laws for
dsobeying the Instructions of the department; for
refusing TO discharge carrier when required by
the department.; for assigning the contract without
the consent of the Postmaster Genera for setting
up or running an express, as aforesaid
The Postmaster General may alter the contract,
and alter the schedule, he allowing u 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 of ad
dltiona stock or carriers is rendered necessary but
the contractor may IN such case. relnquish the con-
tract timely notice, if he prefers it to the change
The Postmaster General may also discontinue or
curta the service, he allowing one months extra
pay 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
dcr's 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, so certified, should accompany each
bid: ..
"The undersigned -, guarantees that -, !
mis- bid for carrying the mail from to - be
accepted by the Postmaster General, 49, shall en-
into obligation prior to the LIST day of March
next, with good and sufficient suretes, to perform
the service proposed
"Dated --."
The bid should be sent under seal to the First
Assistant Postmaster General, and the words "Mail
propossls--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.
PosT OFFICE DEPARTMENT.,
Washington, October IL, l845.
p. S.-If the bidder shall not consider himself