The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-03-29

clio, Corpus Christi, las miles and back. in two
weeks.
Leave Victoria every other Saturday at a. m arrive Al
Corpus Christi next Wednesday by 6p M
Leave Corpus Christi every other Thursday at a m, mr.
rive at Victoria next Sunday by OPP
Bids for weekly trips are invited.
6l5s From Corpus Christi Brasos San Jago, l20 miles
and back, once in two weeks.
Leave Corpus Christi every other Thursday att M,
rive W, at Brasos San Jago next Sunday by II a; m
arrive at Corpus chris,fi D ne XIV "Wednesday by
Bids for weekly trips are invited;
6l59 From Brasos San Jago via Point Isabel to Font
Brown, IS miles and back, once in TWO weeks
Leave Brasos San Jago every other Monday M,
Leave Fort Brown n every oei Sunday a, a. m arrive
at Brasos San Jago same day by pm
Special Omces
Proposals will be received for supplying the following
coed the net revenue derived from the Office supplied viz
BRENNAN from Independence, rs miles and back,
week. ~
Shelby Rutersvile, miles and back once week.
Neche from Douglass, 20 miles and back, in two
weeks
blackberry Buffrom Buckner, eight miles and back, once
week.
Form for a bid where no change from advertisement is
contemplated by the bidder,
81 Cor we, as the be)here write the or
@ 70 ss a as on 5 %
TO as often as the advertisement requires in the time
veyance, wits (ere state how it is be conveyed for
the annual sum oil "
Dated
Form of guarantee accompany each bid:
''The undersigned There insert the of the guar
n sSs or 1 that ns sst bs IF hs
Tor their} bid for carrying the pail from to be
legation prior the first day of July next, with good and
sufficient suretes to perform the service proposed"
Dated.
Seven allowed for opening and closing the
mails at all offices where particular time is specified;
but railroad and steamboat routes there be
delay necessary deliver and receive the bags
The mail to be conveyed in preference to passen-
gers and to their entire exclusion, if its weight and bulk
require it,
Post office blanks malbags, and the special agents of
the department. the exhibition of their credentials,
TO be conveyed without further charge on mail lines admit
ting of such conveyance.
Mail agents to be conveyed without charge the
principal railroad and steamboat lines where the size OF
The mails and the number of the officers will require their
employment by the departments and in that
apartment for the asserting and excepting of the
mail is to be provided by the contractor under the direction
g. In all there be forfeiture of the pay of the
fourth part of il when the running arrival is SO far be-
hind time as to lose the connection with depending mail
Of service srcndered inferior to that in the contract These
orietures may be increased INTO penalties Of higher
and the Importance of the mail.
Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquency be sat
deliver at, post Office the mall any part oft for
suffering it to be we injured, lost, destroyed; for
ton Toss, injury for refusing after demand convey
mail by any coach, railroad car or steamboat which the
regularly the beyond the specified
number trips in the contract and for arriving the
e f az
atty will be exacted equal 70 a quarters pay;
repeated failures. for violating post office laws; for dis
obeyng the instructions Of the department. for refusing 70
assigning without the the
General for setting up running express aore
said.
g. The Postmaster General may alter the contract and
alter the schedule he allowing rata increase of
pensation within the restrictions imposed by law for the
additional service required for the increased speed il
the employment of additional stock carriers is rendered
necessary but the contractor may in such case renqush
the contract timely notice. ii he prefers tito the change
The d , may ana s the contract or
service in whole or in part or place higher OF different
ira pay on the amount dispensed with WV '
The payments will be made through drafts post Of
in February, May, August, and November. 4'
TO- The distances are given aGHorng to the best n ,
prove be greater than advertised if the places
recty named
knowingly making contract for the transportation of the
mail with any person who shall have entered into any
vent the making any bid mail contract by any other
person persons who shall have made any agreement
or shall have given performed or promised to give or
perform, any consideration do not to do, anything
INDUCE any other person not 70 bid mail
the act of 1885, prohibiting combinations to prevent bid
L. bid received after tine wit the 7th of May next
at a without the guaranty required by law, or that
not be considered IN com petition with regular proposal
not adiudged to be extravagant.
H. bidder may offer, where the transportation called
the advertisement is difficult mpractcable at
seasons to substitute interior mode of conveyance,
ntenit service specified number of days, weeks
months He may propose to omit office that is nacces-
sibe is on the stage road the railway at steam
boat landing, the be he may offer subsi
inferior mode of supply in such He
pose different days and hours of departure and arrival,
provided running time is asked and it is obvious
that mail connexion other public accommodation
prejudced. lie may ask for more running time the trip,
during specified number of days at certain of PEE
ciary bad roads but beyond these changes, proposal
for service different from the advertisement will prevent its
being considered in competition with regular bid
aside for extravaganza and where bid contains OF
the above alterations their disadvantages will be estimated
| in pairing il with other proposals.
H. There should be but route bid for in proposal
I5 The route the service, the yearly pay the bidders
and residence and the Of each member OF the
also the mode Of conveyance, if higher mode than
horseback Is intended.
The bid should be under SEAL addressed the
First Assistant Postmaster General. with SNAIL Proposals
in the State of written the face of the letter and
should be despatched in time be received by before
the It'll of May next, at o'clock, a. m;
H. The contracts are to be executed by before the l
10 Under the of 81 March, 1885, the is be
let the lowest bidder rendering sufficient guarantees
for faithful performance, without other reference to the
mode of spoation than be necessary provide
for the due celebrity certainty and security OF such trans
portation.
When the bid proposes mode of conveyance that
is inadequate for the route in respect to the certainty
ry and CELEBRITY of the mails, aside from accommoda
ton for travel, it will not be entitled to the route
10. When the bid does not name mode OF conveyance
il will be taken and understood be for the lowest mode OF
conveyance, wit: horseback. When proposes
carry according the advertisement and mode of
is stated for the route in the ADVERTISEMENT it will
be considered offering only for horseback conveyance.
90 Since the passage of the act of March 3, 1S45,
description of bid has been received. 1t specifies mode
ofconveyance but engages carry the mail with certain
y celebrity, and security using the terms of the law.
These bids called, from the manner in which they
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