The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-10-20
Post Office advertisements Mails to Europe
the Gulf of .Merico, and the Poetic. :

Of the United States mail between any Of he ports
Of the United States and port or ports Of any for
egn power, whenever, in his opinion, the public in
terests will thereby be promoted" hereby invite
PROPOSALS for carrying the mails Of the United States
as herein specified, TO Wit:
J. From New York to Liverpool, in England, and
Or to Bristol, in England, and back;
| Or TO Southampton do do.
2. From New York, by Cowes, in England, to
Antwerp, in Belgium, and bask;
Or TO Bremen, in Germany, and back;
Or to Hamburg, in Germany, and back.
3. From New York TO Havre, in France, and
Or 70 Brest, in France, and back.
a. From New York to Lisbon, in Portugal, and
back. 81 w asa @
S. From New York, BY Havana, in Cuba, to New
Orleans and back.
6. From New York, by Havana, or by King
ston in Jamaica, 70 Chagros, in Colon
bie, and back; with joint or separate
offers 10 extend the transportation to
Panama, and up the Pacific, TO the mouth
oflhe Columbia, and thence 10 the princi-
pal port In the Sandwich Islands;
Or from Charleston to the same, and back;
Or from Pensacola do do do.
Or from Mobile sti do do do.
Or from New Orleans do do do.
T. From New Orleans TO Havana and back; with
an offer to extend to Kingston, in the ISL
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Or from Mobile 10 the same and back;
Or from Pensacola TO the same, and back;
Or from Charleston to the same, and back,
with an offer to supply Key West.
Proposals for commencing said routes at any 9TH
er United States port the Atlantic, than above
named, will be considered
II is intended, out Of the foregoing list ofroutes,
to make selection of one to Europe, and ono to the
Gulf Of Mexico and the Pacific, as may best be de-
termined, after proposals for service on all the
routes are submiued-not reliEquishing, however,
the right to place greater number in operation, if
il shall be deemed expedient to do so.
The proposals. should specify the number Of trips
to be performed during the year, and as near as
may be, the day Of the month on which the vessel
conveying the mail is to depart from the port at
each end of the route. The department contem-
plates on route No. j, semi-monthly conveyance
for eight months of the year, and monthly con-
veyance for the residue of the year; No. 2, like
frequent conveyance; and on No. 8, the same; on
No. 4, monthly conveyance; on No. S, as frequent
transportation as two or three times month; on
No. 6, a trip once in two months; and on No. Z,
twice or three times month, I'M Ss5 ya
The proposals should specify the mode of con-
veyaDce, whether by steamship or sailing-packet;
and forth the SIZE rate, and description of the
vessel with sufficient particularly to enable the de-
cision be made the advice of the proper officers
of the naval service, whether the same is is not
is hereby given that agreeably TO the provisions OF
the act Of Congress aforesaid, those proposals
(being acceptable in other respects) will be pre-
ferred, which shall engage to carry the mail in
steam ship or ships, and shall stipuate to de-
liver 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
their part to pay the fair full value thereof at the
time Of delivery, to be ascerained by four apprais-
ers, 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 appointed by
the President of the United States.
1t should be shown, by the certificate of post
master, other equivalent testimony, that the bid
ders are American citizens and that the mail is to
be transported by them ''in American vessels, by
American citizens"
The postage fixed by law upon mailable matter to
be transported by these lines, is as follows; "Upon
all letters and packages not exceeding half ounce
in weight, between any Of the ports Of the United
States and the ports Of England, or France, or any
other foreign port not less than three thousand miles
Distant t,centyour cens, with the inland postage Of
the United States added when sent through tho Uni
ted States mail to from the post Office at port OF
the United States. Upon letters and packets over
half an ounce in weight, and not exceeding one
ounce fortyeigM cen; and for every additional half
ounce, or fraction of ON ounce, fifteen cenis. Upon
all letters and packets not exceeding one half ounce
sent through the United States mail between
the ports of the United States and any of the West
India islands, or islands in the Gulf Of Mexico,
ten cents; and tosnay cents upon letters and pack
cts not exceeding one ounce; and fue cents for
every additional half ounce or fraction of ounce.
Upon each newspaper, pamphlet, or price current,
in the mail between the United States and any
of the ports and places above enumerated, three
cents, with inland United States postage added when
the same is transported TO or from said port of the
United States in the United States mail" The
bidder may propose for an annual sum of compon-
saon, 10 be named inhe bid; or, in lieu thereof for
Me whole or certain proportion 10 be named IN
the bid) Of the hostages accruing on the matchmaker
conveyed over the route. 8t ss
He may embrace in his offer stipulation to carry
an agent of the Post Office Department with the
mails, or he may omit IT, at his discretion Such
stipulation may induce preference TO be given in
favor Of bid equal in other respects, over bid
not containing It. M Hss
Indentures Of contract are to be executed by the
accepted bidder and by his sureties, by or before
the first day Of May next It is to provide, among
other things that the pay Of the trip is TO be forfeit
ed whom the trip il not performed, and due pro-
portion when grade Of service is rendered inferior
to that specified in the contract; and that lines may
be imposed unless the delinquency be satisfactorily
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, any part Of said mail
for suffering the mail, or any part q il, TO be
wet, injured, lost, or destroyed; for convey
ing il in a place or manner that exposes il 10
depreciation, loss, or injury; for refusing, after
demand made, to convey a mail by any addi-
ional steam ship or vessel run by the contractor on
the route, over and above the specified number Of
trims in the contract and for not arriving at the time
set also for transmitting intelligence, furnishing
the means Of transmitting intelligence, N advance OF
the mail. The Postmaster General may annul the con-
tract for repeated failures; for violating the post Of
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