The Arkansas banner., 1846-05-06

nee laws: TOT QiSODeNl0p lle Oi ''iS pertinent; for refusing to discharge carrier when required by the departments; for assigning the con hact 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 or compensation, within the'restrictions imposed by law, for the additional service required or for the increased speed, if the employment ot a dionaI 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 contnne or curtail 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
 10. The distances are given according to the best information: butno increased pay will be ai- lowed, should they prove to be greater than IS ad- yertiscd, if the places are correctly named H. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law from knowingly making contract for the trans portation of the mail with any person who shall have entered into any combination, or proposed to enter into any combination, 10 prevent the making of any bid for mail contract by any other person or persons, or who shall have made any agreement, or shall have given or performed, or promised to give perform, any considerations to do, or not to do anything whatever, to induce any other person
  is called the 23th secton of the act ol 1856, pro- hibting combinations te prevent bidding. l2. A bjd received after time to wit: on the 30th April next at m, or without the guarantee re- qared by law, CT that combines several routes In one snm Of compensation, cannot be considered in competition with regular proposal not adjudged to ha eXtraga@aat,
 l3 4 bidd may offer, where the transportation called for in the advertisement is difficult CT i'm practicable at certain seasons to substitute an la- erof mole of conveyance, or to IntermIt service specified number of days weeks, or months. He may propose to omit aa office that is inaccessible, 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 sQch cases He may propose different days and honrs of departure and arrival, provided no more running time is asked and it is obvious that no mail connexion or other public accommodation IS prei diced. He may ask for more running time 10 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 lis being considered m competition with regular bid, not set aside for extraTagance: and where q bid contains any of the above alterations, their disadvantages will be est mated in comparing il 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, ssoud b. distinctly statei-aso the node of conveyance, if higher mode than on horseback is intended.
 The following may be used as a form for the bid, tchere no change from tte adeeHise@et Is contem- pi4ied byHe 5i4Ier:
 s,I Or we, as the case may bel hereby propose to carry the mail on No o--, from - to---, agreeably 10 advertisement for $ per ann6m.' ObserW that where the bidder intends to offer any other mode of conveyance than horsebackhe should state il in terms in the bid.
 1G. The following is the form of the guarantry which should be filed, the first blank with the name of he gnaanter tho second with that of the biddeT and the third and fourth WIh the beginning and ter mnatn@Fents of the routa and alter being dated, should be signed by tha gGalantor, 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
 s.The undersigned guaranties that if his bid for carrying the mai trom--to--- he accepted by the Postmaster General, en- ter into obligation prior to the first day of Juiy next, with good and sufficient sureties to perform the service proposed.
 r. Ehe bid should be sent under seal, addressed to the First Assistant Postmaster General, with "Mai Proposals in the State of -," written on ] the face of the letter. and shonld be despatched ln
 time to be received by or before the $0th April next at 9 o'clock, am.
 IS. The contracts are ta be executed before the 1st July next.
 l9. Postmasters 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 heir exact dls- tance from the railroad depot and how otherwise supplied with the mail, to enable the Postmaster General to direct the proper supply to be made rom the railroad by mail messengers from and after the 1st July next
 20 finder the act of Sd March, ls45, the route is 10 be let to the lowest bddef, rendering sufficient guarantics for faithful peGoruaGce. without other reference to the mode of transportation than may be necessary to provide for the due cclerity, tainty and security of such transportation. And the contractor is not required to purchase out or take al a valuation the stock vehicles of the previous contractor.
 When the lowest bid proposes mode of convey ance that is inadequate for the Ioute in respect to the certaiaty, security, and celerity of the mails aside from accommodation for travel, twill not be entitled to the route.
 2l. Wben the bid docs not name a mode of con veyance, it will be taken and understood to be ol the lowest mode of conveyance, to wit: on horseback When Il proposes to carry according to tis hsYef- tisament, and no mode of conveyance IS stated ioI the route in the adYcTtisement Il will be considered as offering only for horseback conveyance. Wher the advertisement uses the term "conveyance il twohorse coaches, or in lour-horse coaches are in Vlted, or 'Prop0sdS to carry in tWo-horse coaches will be considered" or the like expressions in the bid ''acco:dng to the adyertisement' will not he understood referring to the mode mentioned in such invitation. If tic bidder intends to propose for the mode of conveyance stated in the invitation : he should name it in terms in his bid
 p. Since the passage of the act of March Sd 1915, new description of bid has been received It specifies no mode of conveyance, but engages tc carry the maI with certainty, celeritY, and secu- ry 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, 'stGf Ji3s.' Ithas been decided, after mature consideration, that bid proposing specific mode of conveyance o as high grade as two horse coach transp adon i, to be preferred to the star bid. The experience O the department enables it to lay down the following rules, viz;
 When the mail on the route is not so large as te require hSo-horse coach conveyance, star bid, i the lowest, will be preferred 70 the specific bid
 9. When the. mails arc of such size as to ren. der 1t necessaryer eXpedient in reference to then alone 10 provide two-horse coach conveyance, the specific bid, though the highest, will be prefarrel to the star bid, 10 the extent of moderate diff. ference in the compensation, in case the differ ence is not such as to interfere with the policy of tEe 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 en owner of the stock the route, and it is man. ilest that the reason for preterng the specific bid