The Arkansas banner., 1846-03-11
z The Postmaster General nav annnl the con

7. The Postmaster General may annul the con.
 tract for repeated failures; for violating the post of
 flee laws for disobeying the instructions of the de-
 pertinent; for refusing to discharge a carrier when
 required by the department for assigning the con
 hact without the consent of the Postmaster Gen.
 eFal, 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 oi
 additional stocl, or carriers is rendered necessary
 but the contractor may, in such case, relinquish
 the contract on timely notice, if he prefers 1t to the change. The Postmaster General may also dis
 continue or cGrtaii the service, he allowing one
 months extra pay on the amount dispersed with. | 9. The payments will be made through drafts on post offices otherwise, after the expiration oi each quarter, say in February, May, August, and 1 November.
 l0 The distances are given according to the best information: but no increased pay will be al- l lowed, should they prove 10 be greater than is ad- vertised. if the places are correctly named. II. fine Postmaster Generals prohibited by law 1 from knowingly making a 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, to prevent the making oi 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 or perform any consideration to do, not to do, anything whatever, to induce any other person not to bid for mail contract Particular attention is called the 28th section of the act of 1886, pro- hlbltng combinations to prevent bidding.
 F. A bid received after time, to wit on the 30th April next, at m, or without the guarantee re- qulred by law, or that combines several routes in one sum of compensation cannot be considered Tn competition with regular proposal, not adjudged to be eXtravagant.
 I3. bidder may offer, where the transportation called for Tn the advertisement is difficult or i'm practicable at certain seasons, to substitute an in- ferior mode of conveyance, or to intermt service specified number of days, weeks, or months. He may propose to omit an 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 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 conneXinn or other public accommodation is prejudiced. 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 it's being considered Tn competition with regular bid not set aside for eXtraYagance; and where bid contains any of the above alterations their disadvantages will be esti- iA''I1't
 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 a compaily offers, should be distinctly stated-also the mode of conveyance, If a higher mode than on horseback is intended.
 The following may be used as a form for the bid, lrdefe no chaRge from He advertisement iS contem- piotea by ytte bi39er:
 'l Tor we, as the case may bel hereby propose to carry the mail on No, from --to agreeaby 10 advertisement, for $ per annum." Observe, that where the bidder intends to offer any othermode of conveyance than horsebackhe should state 1t in terms in the bids
 l6. The following is the form of the guarantry which should be filled, the first blank with the name of the guaanor, tho second with that of the bidder, and the third and fourth with the beginning and ter mnatng points of the route; and after being dated saoutd be signed ny the gHaTahtor, who must be shown os h. written certificate of postmaster or
 4=3. E satisfactory testimonial, to be a man # 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 -to-- be accepted by the Postmaster Genera, l,-shal en- ter into an obligation prior to the first day of July next, with good and sufficient sQretes, to perform the service proposed.
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 17. The bid should be sent under seal. addressed to the First Assistant Postmaster General, with Mail Proposals in the State of -, written on the lace of the letter; and should be despatched in time to be received by or before the 30th April next at o'clock. m.
 IS. The contracts are to be executed before the 1st July next.
 l9. Postmasterz at offices situated upon or near railroads, but more than eighty rods from a depot will, immediately after the 10th May next, report that fact to the department, stating their exact dIs- 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 from the railroad by mail messengers, from and after the lst July next.
 20. Under the act of Sd March, 1915, the route IS to be let to the lowest bidder, rendering sufficient guaranties for faithful performance, without other reference to the mode of transportation than may be necessary 10 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 of the previous contractor.
 When the lowestbid proposes a mode of convey ance that is inadequate for the route in respect to the ceftaaty, security, and ceerity eff the mails, aside from accommodation for travel, it3wiH not be entitled 10 the route.
 2l When the bid does not name mode of con veyahee, t will be ta ken and understood to be for the lowest mode o conveyance, to wit on horseback When it proposes to carry according to the adver tlsement and no mode of conveyance is stated for the route In the advertisement it will be considered a offering only for horseback conveyance. When the advertisement uses the term "conveyance in two-horse eoaches or in iourhorse coaches are in- ied, or proposals to carry in tWo-horse coaches Wll be consilored, CT the ike expressions in the pid, according to the advertisement' will not be understood as referring to the mode mentioned in sach invitation. If the bidder intends to propose ieF the mode of conveyance stated in the invitation, he should name it in terms in his bid
 9. Since the passage of the act of March Sd, l645, new description of bid has been received.- It specifics no mode of conveyance, but engages to carry the mall with certainty, celerty, and secu- rlty, uslng the terms of the law. These bids are called, from the manner in which they are desig- mated on the books of the department, ''StQr 6ids' thas 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'o 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.
 23. When the mails are of such size as to rem der It necessary or 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 Tn the compensation, in case the diher- ence Is not such as to interfere with the nolic,,