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

March 3, l645, "to contract for the transportation
of the United States mail between any of the 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 q q 5i
I. From New York to Liverpool, in England, and
back; ~
a Or to Bristol, in England, and back;
Or 10 Southampton do do.
2. From New York, by Cowes, in England, to
Antwerp, in Belgium, and backs
Or TO Bremen, in Germany, and back;
Or to Hamburg in Germany, and back.
3. From New York to Havre, in France, and
back; a
vlE Or to Brest, in France, and back. IA!
4. From New York to Lisbon, in Portugal, and
back. va sslaay3aJ
5. From New York, by Havana, in Cuba, to New
Orleans, and back. i a6ht IA
g. From New York, by Havana, or by King
ston in Jamaica, to Chagrcs, in Colon
bia, and back; with Joint or separate
offers 10 extend the transportation 10
Panama, and np 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 from Mobile do do do.
Or from New Orleans do do do.
Z. From New Orleans to Havana, and back; with
an offer to extend to Kingston, in the isl
and Of Jamaica;
Or from Mobile to the same, and back;
Or from Pensacola to the same, and back;
Or from Charleston 10 the same, and back,
with an offer TO supply Key West.
Proposals for commencing said routes at any 9TH
er United States port on the Atlantic than above
named, will be considered.
II is intended, out of the foregoing list ofroues
to make selection of one to Europe and one to the
Gulf Of Mexico and the Pacific, as may best be de-
ID ~G.. g. all. he
routes are sabmued-not relinquishing, however,
the right TO place greater number in operation, il
il shall he deemed expedient TO do So u
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-
for eight months Of the year, and monthly con-
veyance for the residue of the year; No. q like
frequent conveyance; and on No. 3, the same; on
No. 4, monthly conveyance; on No. S, as frequent
a transportation as two or three times month; on
No. 6, a tip once in two months; and on No Z,
twice or three times month,
The proposals should specify the mode of con-
veyance, whether by steamship or sailing-packet
and set 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 or is not
convertible into ship-of-war. And special notice
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 stpulate 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
vessels Of war; the United States being bound, on
their part to pay the fair full value thereof at tho
time of delivery, TO be ascerained by four appras-
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 appointedby
the President of the United States.
II should be shown, by the certificate of post
master, other equivalent testimony, that the bid
ders American citizens and that the mail is to
be transported by them sin American vessels, by
American citizens"
The postage fixed by law upon maable matter to
be transported by these lines, is as follows: "Upon
a letters and packages not exceeding one 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 tireni cenis with the inland postage Of
the United States added when sent through the Uni
ted States mail to or 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, toryegh cents 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 my Of the West
India islands, or islands in the Gulf Of Mexico,
ten cents; and hpsnty cents upon letters and pack
cts not exceeding one ounce; and five csais for
every additional half ounce or fraction Of an ounce.
Upon each newspaper, pamphlet, or price-current,
sent 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 from said port Of the
United States, in the United States mail" The
bidder may propose for an annIal aum Of compen-
sation to be named the bid or in lieu thereof for
the whole certain proportion Ito be named in
the bd) of Me hostages accrung on the Matchmaker
conveyed over the route.
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 q bid equal in other respects, over a bid
not containing it.
Indentures Of contract are 10 be executed by the
accepted bidder and by his sureties, by or before
the first day of May next. Il is TO provide, among
other things, that the pay of the trip to be forfeit
ed when the trip is not performed, and due pro-
portion when grade Of service is rendered inferior
to that specified in the contracts and that fines 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 mai! belonging thereto, or any part Of said mail
wet, injured, lost, or destroyed; for convey
ing il II a place or manner that exposes il to
depreciation, loss, or injury; for refusing, AFTER
demand made, to convey mail by any add-
tiona steam ship or vessel run by the contractor on
the route, over and above the specified number OF
trips in the contract and for arriving at the time
set; also for transmitting intelligence or furnishing
the means transmitting intelligence, in advance OF
the mail The Postmaster General may annul the con,
tract for repeated failures; for violating the post Of
fee laws; for dsobeying the Instructions OF the de-
parmenti for refusing to discharge carrier when
required by the department. for assigning the con-
tract without the consent Of the Postmaster General;
or for setting up or running an express, uforesaid
The Postmaster General may alter the contract,
and alter the schcdula he allowing pro rata increase
Of compensation within the restrictions imposed by
law, for the additional service required or for the
increased speed, if the employment of additional
stock carriers is rendered necessary but the pas-
tractor may, in such case, relinqush ths eantact on