The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-08
THE DAILY UNION
MAILS TO GALVESTON

MAILS TO GALVESTON.
PROPOSALS to carry the mails Of the United
i States, from the LIST OF March, I646, to the 26tl
Of February, 1850, with right TO the department to
extend to the 30th of June, 1885, from Ns,r Orleans
IN Louisiana, to Galveston In Tsras, $50 miles and
back, will be received the Contract Office of the
Post Office Department, until the 25th day of JAN
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 m.
Leave Galveston every Tuesday at III a. M,
arrive at New Orleans every Thursday by 10 q. m.
The proposals should specify the mode of con-
yeyance, whether by steamship or sailing-paoket,
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
is not convertible into 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
respects) will be preferred which shall engage to
carry the mail in steam ship or ships, and shall
stpulate 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 ascertRped 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.
The bidder may propose different schedule Of
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-
crung on the Matchmaker conveyed over the route;
and he may offer to carry the mail more frequently
than once a 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 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 mail; for suffering the mall any part of it, to
be wet injured, lost, destroyed; for conveying it
IN place or manner that exposes il to depreciation,
loss, or injury; for refusing, after demand made, to
convey mail by any additional steamship or ves-
sci run by the contractor on the route, over and
above the specified number of trips in the contract
and for not arriving al the time set also for transmit
ting intelligence, furnishing the means Of trans
hitting intelligence, in advance of the mail. The
Postmaster General may annul the contract for re-
peaed 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 may alter the contract,
and alter the schedule, he allowing pro rata in
crease of compensation within the restrictions inn
posed by law, for the additional service required,
for the increased speed, if the employment of ad-
dional stock or carriers is rendered necessary; but
the contractor may, in such case, relnqush the
tract timely notice. if he prefers it to the change
The Postmaster General may also discontinue OF
Ia
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 name 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,
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 --,
nis bid for carrying the mail from -- to -- be
accepted by the Postmaster General --- shall en-
ter into obligation prior to the lst 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 email
proposasG 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.
G. JOHNSON,
Postmaster General.
PosT OFFIcE DEPARTMENT,
Washington, October IL 1845.
p S--If the bidder shall not consider himself
able, or prepared, to commence service early 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 l1--lawtD3l