The Arkansas banner., 1846-02-25

! fee laYs for disobeyng the instructions oi the de- partment; for refusing to discharge carrier when required by the department; for assigning the con l hact without the consent of the Postmaster Neh- l craI, 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, II the employment oi Idtional stock or carriers is rendered necessary; i but the contractor may, in such case, reilhquish 1 the contract on timely notice, Ii he prefers II 10 l the change The Postmaster General may also dis- ] continue or curail the service, he allowing one months extra pay on the amount dispensed with. 1 g. The payments will be made through drafts on post offices or otherwise, after the expiration ot each quarter, say in February, May, August, and November. best intoruation: but no increased pay will be al- lowed, should they prove to be greater than IS ad- vertised, if the places are correctly named. i II. The Postmaster Generals prohibited by law 1 from knowingly making contract for the trans, l 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 of any bid for a 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, or not to do, anything whatever to induce any other person not to bid for mail contract Particular attention is called tie 23th section of the act ot lo36 pro- hibiting combinations to prevent bidding F. 4 bid received after time, 10 wit: on the 30th April next at m, or without the guarantee re- quired by law, or that combines several routes Tn one sum of compensation, cannot be considered Tn competition with regular proposal, not adJgdged | to be eXraVagant
 l3 A bdd, may offer, where the transportation called for in the advertisement is difficult or m- practicable at certain SeaSons to substitute an n- ieror mode of conveyance, or to lntermit service a 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 al 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 runnine time is asked, and it is obvious that no mail connexon or other public accommodation IS i preudiced. He may ask for more running tune 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 its 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- mated in comparing fl with other proposals.
 II. There should be but one route bid for in a proposal.
 D. The route, the service, the yearly pay the bidders name and residence, and the name of each member of the firm, where a company offers, should be distinctly stated-also the mode of conveyance if higher mode than on horseback is intended.
 The following may be used as form for the bid ,rhere no change from he advertisement IS coatem- Plafcd Jy He bidder:
 Il Tor we, as the case may bel hereby propose to carry the mail on No. -. from - to-- agrecably 10 advertisement, for $ per annum.' Observe that where the bidder intends to offer any other mode of conveyance than horsebac5h he shoulc state il in terms in the bid.
 lG The following is the form of the guaranty which should be filled, the first blank with the namt of the guaantor tho second with that of the bidder and the third and fourth with the beginning and ter nnating points of the route; and after being dated should be signed by the guarantor, who must bt shown by the written certificate of postmaster, O other equally satisfactory testimonial, to be a mat of property, and able to make good his guaranty This guaranty, so certified should accompany eael bid:
 ..The undersigned - guaranties that - if his bid for carrying the mail from--to--- be accepted by the Postmaster ral,-shal en ter into obligation prior to the first day of July next, with good and sufficient suretes, to perform the service proposed,
 'sDated -"
 r. The bid should be sent under sea addresse to the First Assistant Postmaster General, wit "Mail Proposals in the State of -" written O , the face of the letter. and should be despatched i time to be received by or before the 30h April nex at 9 o'clock, am.
 IS The contracts are to be executed before tn lst July next.
 I9 Postmascrs at offices situated upon or nea railroads but more than eighty rods from depot will, immediately after the 10th May next, repol
 that fact to the department, stating their exact dis tancc from the railroad depot, and how otherws supplied with the mail, to enable the Postmaste General to direct the proper supply 10 be made iror the railroad by mail messengers, from and after tn lst July next.
 20 Under the act of Sd March, 1s45, the rout
 is 10 be let 10 the lowest bidder rendering saiicicn guaranties for faithful performance, without othe reference to the mode of transportation than ma be necessary to provide for the due ccleriy, ceI tainty and security of such transportation. An
 the new contractor is not required to purchase ou or take at d valuation the stock or vehicles of tn previous contractor.
 r When the lowest bid proposes mode of convey ance that is inadequate for the route in respect
 the certaiaty, security, and celerity of the mail! aside from accommodation for travel, it.will not entitled to the route.
 2l When the bid does not name a mode of cor veyance, 1t will be taken and understood 10 be ic the lowest mode ofconyeyanee, o wit: on horseback When 1t proposes to carry according 10 the adyel tisement and no mode of conveyance is stated fc the route in the advertisement 1t will be consdere ) a, offering only for horseback conveyance. Whe the advertisement uses the term '.conveyance horse coaches in iorIr-horse coaches are lt vited,' CT proposals to carry in two-hose coacht will be considered,' or the like expressions in tn bid, 'sacco:ding to the advertisement will not understood as referring 10 the mode mentioned such invitation. If the bidder intends to propos for the mode of conveyance stated in the invitation f he should name it in terms in his bid ?. Since the passage of the act of March 3c lS45, new description of bid has been received It specifics mode of conveyance, but engages { carry the mall with certainty, celerity, and secu rity, using the terms of the law These bids ar called, from the manner in which they are desg hated on the books of the department, star bi3s. It has been decided after mature consideration, tha a bid proposing specific mode of conveyance C as high grade as two-horse coach transpoI taon to be preferred to the star bid. The experience C the department enables it to lay down the foowin : rules, viz
 { When the mail on the route is not so large as t require two-horse coach conveyance, star bid the lowest will be preferred 10 the specific bid , 9. When the mails are of such size as to ren der 1t necessary eXpedient in reference to then alone to provide two-horse coach conveyance tn speclc bid, though the highest, will be preferre r 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 poc- .oi tfe new law, which looks to a reduction in tn costs ot Transportation, Exceptions however, ma, be allowed where the star bid is made by the pres en owner of the stock on the route, and it. is man