The Arkansas banner., 1846-04-08

| flee laws for disobeying the instructions o the de- partment for refusing to discharge carrier when required by the department; for assigning the con- tlact without the consent of the Postmaster Gen era, or for setting up or running an express as aforesaid.
 S. The Postmaster General may alter the con- tract and alter the schedule, he allowing pro rata increase or compensation, within the restrictions imposed by law, for the additional service required, or for the increased speed, if the employment of ditonaI stock or carriers is rendered necessary but the contractor may, in such case, reIInqulsh the contract on timely notice, if he prefers Il to the change The Postmaster General may also dis continue or cuTtail the service, he allowing one months extra pay on the amount dispensed with. g. The payments will be made through drafts on post offices or otherwise after the expiration oi each quarter, say in February, May, August, and November
 To- The distances are given according to the best iniomaton: but no increased pay will be al lowed should they prove to be greater than is ad- vertised if the places are correctly named.
 II. The Postmaster Generals prohibited by law from knowingly making a contract for the trans poration of the mail with any person who shall have entered into any combination, or proposed to enter into any combination, to prevent the making of any bid for mail contract by any other person or persons, or who shall have made any agreement, shall have given or performed, or promised to give or perform, any consideration to do, or not to do, anything whatever, to induce any other person not to bid for mail contract. Particular attention is called the 2Sth section of the act of 1856, pro- hibiting combinations to prevent bidding.
 l2. \ bid received after time, to wifi: on the 30th April next, at a m, or without the guarantee re- quired by law, that combines several routes in one sum of compensation, cannot be considered Tn competition with regular proposal, not adJudged to be eXtrayagant.
 B. A bidder may offer, where the transportation called for in the advertisement is difficult or i'm practicable at certain seasons, to substitute an ln ierior mode of conveyance, to intermlt service specified number of days, weeks, or months. He may propose 10 omit office that Is inaccusslble, CT is not on the stage road, the railway, or at steamboat landing, the case may be, or he may offer to substitute an inferior mode of supply in such cases. He may propose different days and hours of departure and arrival, provided no more running time is asked, and it is obvious that no mail conneXon other public accommodation Is preiudiced. He may ask for more running time to the trip, during specified number of days, at cer- tain seasons of peculiar bad roads. But beyond these changes, proposal for service different from the advertisement will prevent its being considered Tn competition with regular bid, not set aside for eXtrayagance; and where a bid contains any of the above alterations, their disadvantages will be est mated in comparing 1t with other proposals.
 II. There should be but one route bid for in a proposal
 l5. 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 distinctly stated-also the mode of conveyance, if higher mode than on horseback Is intended
 The following may be used ds a form for the bid, achefe 20 chaase from He advertisement IS coaiem- pt4ted byife 5idFef:
 'I tor we, as the case may bel hereby propose to carry the mail on No from to -. agreeably to advertisement, for $ per annnm." Observe that where the bidder intends 10 offer any , .1, state ii in terms in the bid.
 lG The following is the form of the guaranty which should be flied, the first blank with the name of the guaranter tho second with that of the bidder and the third and fourth with the beginning and ter minating points of the routc and after being dated, should be signed by the guafantor, who must be shown by the written certificate of postmaster, or other equally satisfactory testimonial to be ot property, and able to make good his guaranty This guaranty, so certified, should accompany each bid:
 ''The undersigned - guaranties that -, if his bid for carrying the mail fron--to-- be accepted by the Postmaster General, l,-shall en- ter into an obligation prior to the first day of July next with good and sufficient suretics, to perform the service proposed.
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 r. The bid should be sent under seal, addressed to the First Assistant Postmaster General, with ''3lail Proposals in the State of -," written on the face of the letter; and should be despatched in time to be received by before the 30th April next, at 9 o'clock. m.
 15 The contracts are to be executed before the lst July next
 10. Postmasters at offices situated upon or near railroads, but more than eighty rods from depot, will, immediately after the l0th May next report that fact to the department, stating their exact ds tancc from the railroad depot, and how otherwise supplied with the mail, to enable the Postmaster Generato direct the proper supply to be made from the railroad by mail messengers, from and after the lst July next.
 20 Under the act of Sd March, 1s45 the route is to be let 10 the lowest bidder, rendering sufficient guaranties for faithful performance, without other reference to the mode of transportation than may be necessary o provide for the due celerity cer- tainty, and security of such transportation And the new contractor is not required to purchase out, or take at valuation the stock or vehicles ol the previous contractor.
 When the lowest bid proposes a mode of convey ance that is inadequate for the route in respect to the certaiaty, security, and celerity of the mails aside from accommodation for travel it,will not be entitled to the route.
 2l. When the bid does not name mode of con veyance it will be taken and understood to be for the lowest mode ofconyeyancc, to wit: on horseback. When it proposes to carry according to the adHer- tisement, and no mode of conveyance IS stated for the route in the advertisement 1t will be considered offering only for horseback conveyance, When the advertisement uses the term 'conVeyance Tn two-horse coaches or in four-horsc coaches are n- vited, proposals to carry in two-hoIse coaches will be considered, or the like expressions in the bid, 'sacco.dins to the advertisement will not be understood referring to the mode mentioned in such invitation. If the bidder intends to propose for the mode of conveyance stated in the nvitation he should name it in terms in his bid
 p. Since the passage of the act of March Sd, 1915, a new description of bid has been received- Il specifics no mode of conveyance, but engages to carry the mall with certainty, celerity, and secu- rity, using the terms of the law. These bids are called, from the manner in which they are desig- mated on the books of the department, 'star bids. has been decided, after mature consideration, that a bid proposing specific mode of conveyance of as high grade as two-horse coach transportation is to be preferred to the star bid. The experience of the department enables it to lay down the following rules, viz;
 When the mail on the route is not so large as to require two-horse coach conveyance star bid, if the lowest, will be preferred to the specific bid.
 9. When the mails are of such size as to rem der it necessary or eXpedient in reference to them alone 10 provide two-horse coach conveyance the specific bid, though the highest, will be preferred to the star bid, to the extent of moderate diff ference in the compensation, in case the differ ence is not such as to interfere with the policy iaI ab ol-r f.