The Arkansas banner., 1846-03-04

fee iaWS for dsobeylng the instructions ol tnc de- partment; for refusing to discharge carrier when required by the department; for assigning the con tact without the consent of the Postmaster Gen eral, 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 CT compensation, within the restrictions imposed by aw, for the additional service required, or for the increased speed, if the employment of idtional stock or carriers is rendered necessary; but the contractor may, in such case, rellnqulsh the contract on timely notice, if he prefers It to the change The Postmaster General may also dIs- continue or cnrtail the service, he allowing one months extra pay on the amount dispensed with
 9. The payments will be made through drafts on post offices or otherwise, after the expiration of each quarter, say in February, May, August, and i November
 10. The distances are given according to the best information: bat no increased pay will be al lowed, should they prove 10 be greater than is ad- Yeris2d T inc places are correctly named.
 II. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law from knowingly making a contract for the trans portaton 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 shaii have made any agreement or 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 23th section of tine act ot 1856, pro- hibiting combinations to prevent bidding.
 I2. bid received after time, to wit: on the 30th | April next, at 9 a m, or without the guarantee re- quired by law, or that combines several routes in one sum of compensation, cannot be considered Tn competition with regular proposal, not adjudged 1 to be eXtraVagant.
 B. A bidder may offer, where the transportation called for in the advertisement is difficult or inn practicable at certain seasons, to substitute an ln- ierior mode of conveyance or to inermlt service specified number of days, weeks, or months. lie may propose to omit office that IS inaccessible, CT is not on the stage road the railway, or at steamboat landing, as the case may be, or he may offer to substitute an>nferior mode of supply iii such cases. lie may propose different days and hours of departure and arrival, provided no more running time is asked and it Is obvious that no mail conneXion or other public accommodation is prejudiced He may ask for more running time to the trip during a 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 extrayagaace; and where bid contains any of the above alterations, their disadvantages will be est mated in comparing it with other proposals. II. There should be but one route bid for in proposal
 l5. The route the service, the yearly pay, the bidders name and residence, and the name of each member of the firm, where q company oHers should be distinctly stated-also the mode of conveyance, if higher mode than on horseback is intended.
 The following may be used as a form for the bid, acdere no chaage from he advertisement IS coateM- piated by Me 6dder:
 q Tor we, as the case may elhereby propose to carry the mail on No, from - to -, agGeeably to advertisement, for $ per annum.' Observe, that where the bidder intends to offer any other mode of conveyance than horseback he should state it in terms in the bid.
 Is. The following is the form of the guaranty which should be filed the first blank with the name of the ggarantor, tho second with that of the bidder and the third and fourth with the beginning and ter minating points of the route; and after being dated, should be signed by the guaranor, who must be shown by the written certificate of postmaster, or other equally satisfactory testimonial, to be a man of property, and able to make good his guaranty This guaranty, so certified, should accompany each bid:
 ssThe undersigned ed--g gaaranties that -, if his bid for carrying the mail from---to-- be accepted by the Postmaster Genera.-sba en- ter into an obligation prior to the first day of July next, with good and sufficient suretes, to perform the service proposed
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 r. The bid should be sent under seal addressed 10 the First Assistant Postmaster General, with Mail Proposals in the State of - written on the face of the letter and should be despatched in time to be received by before the 30h April next al o'clock, an.
 Is. The contracts are 10 be executed before the Ist July next.
 l9 Postmaster> at offices situated upon or near railroads but more than eighty rods from depot, will, immediately after the 10th May next report that fact to the department stating their exact dis tauce from the railroad depot and how otherwise supplied with the mail, 10 enable the Postmaster General to direct the proper supply to be made from the railroad by laal messengers from and after the lst July next.
 20. Under the act of 3d March, IS45 the route is to be let 10 the lowest bidder, tenderng sufficient guaranties for faithful performance, without other reference to the mode of transportation than may he necessary 10 provide for the due celerity, tanty. and security of such transportation. And the contractor is not required to purchase out or take at a valuation the stock or vehicles of the previous contractor.
 When the lowest bid proposes a mode of convey ance that is inadequate for the route in respect to the certaaty. security, and celerity of the mails, aside from accommodation for travel, it.Will not be entitled to the route
 21 When the bid docs not name mode of con veyance, it will be taken and understood to be for the lowest mode of conveyance to wit: on horseback When II proposes to carry according to the adyer- tisement and no mode of conveyance is stated for the route in the advertisement it will be considered as offering only for horseback conveyance. When the advertisement uses the term 'coaveyance in tWohorse coaches, or in ioHr-horse coaches are in- Fled, CT "propesals to carry i'll tWo-hoIse coaches will be considered,' or the like expressions in the bd, 'acco.ding to the adyertisement'' will not be understood as referring to the mode mentioned in such invitation. If the bidder intends to propose Tor the mode of conveyance stated in the invitation he should name il in terms in his bid
 9. Since inc passage of the act of March Sd, lS45 new description of bid has been received- It specifics no mode of conveyance, but engages to carry the mall with certainty, celerlty, and secu- rity, using the terms of the law. These bids are called from the manner in which they are desg- hated on the books of the department, :Star 6ias'' Il has been decided, after mature consideration that bid proposing specific mode of conveyance of as high grade as tWohorse coach transportation is to be preferred to the star bid. The experience of inc 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 10 the specific bid
 23. When the mails are of such size as to rem der it necessary expedient in reference to them alone to 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 of tfe new law, which looks to a reduction in the costs Of transportation. Exceptions however. may be allowed where the star bid is made by the pres enl owner of the stock on the route, and it is man-