The North-Carolina standard., 1847-01-27

10 prevent the making ofany bid fur mail contract 9y
Or hs have given Or
give pefforr, any TO oes or
NOT te do, any thing Whasser % induce any
son not to bid for mail contact. PaIcnlar aHenoA
is called TO the 2sth section the act of 1885, Prohb
ing combinations to prevent bidding b -ssfIo yr.1
II. bid received after time, to WIT: the lOtn naIen
next at M or without the guaranty required by law,
or that combines routes In one sum OF compen
sation. be considered in competition with reeu-
lar proposal not adjudged tobe extrayaganf- 7sf
l3 Abidder may offer, where the transportation called
for in the advertisement is difficult or lmPraccabe al
certain seasons, substitute inferior mode OF con-
days weeks, or months. He may propose to omit an
Office that inaccessible not the stage road the
railway or at steamboat landing, as the case may
or he may offer substitute inferior mode of supply
in such He may propose different days and honrs
of departure and arrival provided no more running time
land it obvious that no mail or other
publc accommodation preudiced He ask for more
running time to the trip. dnrInga seRcihed numbeE
ays at certain seasons of peculiarly bad roads, but
S.vond these a. proposal for service different
from the advertisement will it's being consider
ed in competition with regular bid not set aside for e-
trayaeance and where bid contains any of the above
alterations disadvantages will be estimated COM
pairing it with other proposals -
Il. There should be but one route bid for In pro-
H. The route the service, the yearly pay, the bid
ders name and residence, and the name OF each men,
ber the firm, where company offers, should De dls-
tincy safed-also the mode Of conveyance, if higher
mode than on horseback is intended
l6 The bid should be sent under SEAL addressed to
the First Assistant Postmaster General, with :. MAJ
Proposals in the State Of, written on the lace oil
the letter and should be despatched in time TO be
ceved by before the 10th March next, at O'CLOCK,
o. m. rr--. -. .+ -3
H. The contracts be executed by before the
| Ist July next. .. ~ .
49, Postmasters at Offices situated upon near rail-
roads, but than eighty rods from depot will, i'm
medsey after the lst April next report that fact to the
department stating their exact distance from the railroad
depot and how otherwise supplied with the mail to
able the Postmaster General to direct the proper supply
to be made from the railroad by mail messengers. from
and after the 1st July next sa' a' u :, 9.'
49, Under the act OF Sd March, lS45 the route is to
be let to the lowest bidder, rendering sufficient guaran-
the mode of than may be necessary to pro-
vide for the due ceery certainty and security OF such
transportation. -
/ When the lowest bid proposes mode of conveyance
that is inadequate for the in respect to the certain
ty security, and celebrity of the mails aside from any
accommodation for travel it will not be entitled to the
route.
|. 20. When the bid does not name mode Of convey
ance it will be taken and understood to be for the lowe
mode Of conveyance, to wit horseback. When II
proposes to carry according TO the advertisement and nc
mode conveyance is stated for the route the adver
tisement, it will be considered offering only for horse
back conveyance.
2I. Since the passage Of the act of March 3, 1Si5
description OF bid has been received. It specifies
mode of conveyance but engages to carry the mai
with certanJ, celebrity, and security using the terms
Of the law. These bids called. from the manner In
which they designed on the books of the department
bids" 1t has been decided, after mature
sideration. that bid proposing specific mode OF con-
veyance of high grade horse coach transpor
taton is 10 be preferred to the star bid The expert
ence the department enables lay down the follow
ing rules, viz
When the mail the route is not so large a. to re-
qure twohorse coach conveyance star bid fthe low
est, will be preferred TO the specific bid.
% When the mails OF such size and weight to
render it necessary expedient in reerreLce to them
alone to provide twohorse coach conveyance, the
specific bid, though the highest will be preferred to
the star bid, TO the extent of moderate difference in
the compensation in the difference is not such as
interfere with the policy ofthe new law, which looks
to reduction in the cost Transportation Exceptions
however, be allowed where the star bid Is made by
the present THE stock the route and it
manifest that the for preferIing the specific bid
do not exist in his case. .. .. .a.
o. On routes Of the highest Glass; where four-horse
coach steamboat ansporation is required by the size
and importance Of the mails the preference for the
specific bid will be, if necessary, carried to greater
extent of difference than the inferior coach routes,
subject. however, to the exceptions above stated
"a modification of bid, in any of its essential
teIms, is tanamount bid. and cannot be receV-
ed TO interfere with regular competition. after the
last hour set fsr receiving bids.
c. JOHNSON,
! .- ..= Postmaster General
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