The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-05
Post Office advertisement --Mails to Europe
the Gulf of .Merico, and The Pacific.

Or 10 13rest in France, and back
4. From New York 10 Lisbon, IN Portugal and
$. From New Yort, ~ Havana, in Cuba, to New
s. From New York, by Havana, or by King
~sA ston in Jamaica. To Chsgres, in Colon
bia, and back; with Joint or separate
! offers 10 extend tbs transportation to
| Panama, and up the Pacific, to the mouth
| ofthe Columbia, and thence TO the princi-
pal port in the Sandwich Islands,
Or from Charleston to the same, and back;
| Or from Pensacola do do do.
Or Or from from Mob Mobile o,.. Do Do 90 DO 49, 90
| 7. From New Orleans to Havana, and back; with
| an offer to extend to Kingston, in the isl
Or from Mobile to 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
or United States port the Atlantic, than as 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 oil the
routes are subntted--not renquiShing, however,
the right to place greater number in operation, if
it 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 10 depart from the port at
each end Of the route. The department contem-
plates on route No. ], semi-monthy conveyance
for eight months Of the year, and a monthly con-
veyance for the residue of the year, on No 2, like
| frequent conveyance, and on No. 3, the sanie on
No 4, monthly conveyance; on No. 6, as frequent
a transportation as two or three times month"; on
| No. 6, tIip once in two months; and ON NO. q,
| twice or three times month,
1 tba nf
veyance, whether by steamship or sailing-packet;
and set forth the size, rate, and description OF the
vessel with sufficient particulafity TO enable the de-
cison be made 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
is hereby given that, agresably to the provisions Of
| the act of Congress aforesaid, those proposals
(beng acceptable in other respects) will be pre-
ferred, which shall engage 10 carry the mail IN
Steam ship or ships, and shall sipulate to de-
liver said ahip or ships to the United States, or
10 their proper officer, on demand made, fol
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 ascerained by four nppras-
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.
i It should be shown, by the certificate of post
MASTER other equivalent testimony, that the bid
ders American citizens, and that the mail is to
>bc transported by them Sin American vessels, by
! American citizens"
j The postage fixed by law upon maiable matter to
be transported by these lines, is as follows: upon
all letters and packages not exceeding one half ounce
i in weight, between any of the ports of the United
| States and the ports OF England, or France, any
other foreign port not less than three thousand miles
distant, tceniy.four ee,s with the innnd postage OF
the United States added when sent through tho Uni
saIG sas~o thov nj nf
the United States. Upon letters and packets over
half an ounce in weight, and not exceeding one
ounce, JoriegM ceis; and for every additional half
ounce, or fraction of an ounce, fifteen cents 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 fcenty cenfs upon letters and pack
cts not exceeding one ounce; and ire cents for
every additional half ounce fraction of an ounce.
sent in the mail between the United States and any
Of she ports and places above enumerated, three
cents with inland United States postage added when
the 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 comPen-
saton, to be named inthe bid; or, in lieu thereof for
the whole or certain proportion TO be named in
the bid) of the hostages accing on the Matchmaker
conveyed over the route.
| He NAV embmcc 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.
! Indcntures of contract are to be executed by the
accepted bidder and by his sureties, by or before
| the first day of May next II is TO provide, among
other things that the pay of the trip is to be forfeit
ed when the trip is not performed, and due pro-
portion when grade of service is rendered inferior
i :Eod he and fine
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, or any part of said mali;
for suffering the mail, or any part Of it, to be
wet, injured, lost, or destroyed; for convey
ing il in a place or manner that exposes it to
depreciation, loss, or injury; for refusing, after
demand made, to convey mail by any add-
tonal steam ship vessel 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 transmitting intelligence, or furnishing
the means ofransmttng intelligence, in advance OF
the mail The Postmaster General may annul the con-
tract for repeated faures for violating the post Of
fee laws; for dsobsying the instructions of the de-
parment; for refusing to discharge carrier when
required by the department.; for assigning the con-
tract without the consent of the Postmaster Genera
for setting up or running an EXPRESS aforesaid
| The Postmaster General may alter the contract,
and alter the schedule he allowing pro rata increase
Of compensation, within the restrictions imposed by
law, for the additional service required, or for the
increased speed, II the employment of additional
stock carriers is rendered necessary but the con-
tractor may, in such case, renquish the contract
timely notice, il he prefers it to the change. The
Postmaster General may also discontinue or curtaiI
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 bidders
name and residence, and the name Of each member
Of the firm, where company offers, should be dis
tnctly 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 term-
mating points Of the route; and after being dated,
should be signed by the guarantor, who must be