Washington telegraph., 1850-03-27

grade NJ
service is rendered inferior to tha in the contract
These forteitures may be increased into penalties
of higher amount, according to the nature or fire..
quency of the failure and the importance of tho
mail.
b. Fines will be imposed unless the delnuuepcv
be satisfactorily explained in due time, for ialing
to take from or deliver at, post office, The mail
any part of it, for suffering it to be wet, injured
lost, destroyed; conveying it in place or
manner that exposes it to degradation, loss, or in
jury; for refusing after demand to convey a mail
by any coach, railroad car, steamboat, which
the contractor regularly runs on the route beyond
the specified number of trips in the contract. and
for not arriving the time s-t and for setting nm
or running an express to transmit commercial in
telilgence in advance of the mail, penalty will
be exacied equal 10 quarters pay.
7. The Postmaster General may annul the con.
tract for repeated failures; for violating The Dos,
office laws; for dsobeyipg the instructions of the
Department; for refusing 10 discharge carrier
when required by the Department.; for assigning
the contract without the consent of the Post master
General, or for setting up or running express as
aforesaid.
&. The Postmaster General may alter the con-
tract, and alter the schedule, h- allowing a pro
rata Increase OF compensation, within the res,ric
tons Imposed by law, for the add.tiona service
required, or for the increased speed if the empov
ment of additional stock carriers is rendered
necessary; but The contractor may, in such case.
r,'iingush the contract timely notice if he prs
fers it to the change. The Postmaster General
may annul the contract or curtail the service and
pay. when he wishes to dispense with the service
in whole or IN part o. place higher or different
grade OF service on the route, he allowing one
months extra pay on the amunn, dispensed with
9 I'h" pay ymrnts will be made through drafts
on post offices 9th, rwse, after the expiration
and November
iU. he distances are given ACCORDING 10 the
best information: but no increased pay will be a-
lowed, should they prove TO be greater than is ad.
veriIS d, iilhe places are correctly named
IL. The Posi- General is pr hibi,ad bv
law from knowingly making Il contract for III.
trs nsportai ION Of the mail with any person who
shall hav. entered into any combination, or pro-
posed to enter into any combination, to prevent
the making Of al bid tor all contract by auy
other person persons, who shall have made any
agreement, or shall have given performed or
promised to give or perform, any consideration to
do moi to do anything whatever to induce apy
other person not TO bid for mail contract Par.
ticuar attention is called to he 2Sth section of the
act of 1896, prohibiting combinations to pleven,
bidding.
II. a bid received. after time, to wit, the 18th
April next, at 10 d m, without the guaranty re-
quIred by law, that combines several routes in
one sum OF compensation, cannot be considered
in competition with IA regular proposal not ad-
Judged 10 b" eXtravagant.
l3. bidder may uffrr, where the iranspcr-
taton called FOR in the advertisement is d ficuli
or iInpractcahie at certain SEASONS TO substitute
an In!erof mode Of conveyance, or to intermt
service specified number of days, weeks or
months. tie may propose to omit an office
that rs inaccessible, or 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 he may
propose dif1errnf days and hours of departure
and arrival, provided no more running lime is
ked. and II is obvious that mail connt xlon
or other public accommodate is prrj,i,.ced -
lie may ask for more running time to the ,r;p
during specified number OF days at certaln
seasons of peculiarly bad roads; bu, beyond these
changes IA proposal for service d flrrent 'rem the
will prevent IT'S being considered
in competition with regular bid not SCI ASIDE
tor extravaganza; and wher. "a bid contains any
Of the above alterations. their disadvantages
will be estimated in comparing it with other
proposals
IA. There should be but one route bid Tor in
Il proposal.
IS. The route the service, the yearly pay,
Tive bidders rame ana residence, and the name
oi Zach m'mhrr Of the firm, whore company
Jiir s. should b. distinctly stated; also The mode
If conveyance, il "a higher mode than Oh horse.
back is nerdcd
l6 The bid should he sent uuder seal address
'ed to the FIRST Assistant Postmaster General,
with " Mail Proposals in name the State aud
1rrritory,J written on the lace of The letter; and
should BE- dispatched in time to be received by or
before the 10Th April next, at 10 o'clock A. NJ.
l. should be- guaranteed, and the sufcirncy of the
guaraniors should be- duly certified. (Srr sorins.)
IL. The contracts are TO be executed by or be-
fore the lsl Juy next
~ Posrm st,rs at Offices situated upon or near
bat more han eighty rods from depot,
will immediately after the | lth My next, rpor
that fact 10 the Department, sra,ing their exact
distance from The railroad depot. AMI how other
wise supplied with the mail. 10 enable The Post
master u neral 10 direct the proper supply 10 be
made from the railroad by mail messengers, from
aud after III LIST July next
~. Under the act OF March 3, 1915, the route
is to be let Ia the lowest bidder, tender, % sncen
. GUARANTEES for faithful performance, without oSr
reference TO Ih" mode of transportation than may
be necessary To provid" for the due CELEBRITY, GER
ta'hiN, aud security of such transporiat ON.
Whrn the lowest bid proposes mode Of con-
vtyance that Is inadequate for the route in respect
10 the cerih'ny security. AID ceIerity OF the mails,
as DE- from 'thy accommodation for travel it will not
be entitled To ihe route.
~. w h"n The b d does not name mode oi con-
vry ance, 1T viii be taken and understood to be Tor
the low esl mode of conveyance, to vii, on horse
back. VIII il proposes carry ac, ordng to The
advertisement. and mode OF conveyance rs stat
ed for the rontr in the advertisement, il will be
considered as offering oniy for horseback convey
ance
u Since the passage Of the act of March D.
1919. new desc iption Of bid has been received
II specifics mode Of conveyance but en-
cages TO carry the mail with certainty. celerV'
aud security, using the terms OF the law. Ihese
buds are called. from the manner in which they ale
drsIgni,'ed on the books of the Department, "aa'
bfdS Ii has been decided, after mature con.
sd"ration, that a bid proposing specific moor u
conveyance of as high grade as two horse coacn
tran isrorlaIion is to be ,r-ierred to the s,ar oo
Ihe experience of the Department enables i 10
lay down the following rules viz:
w Whtn the mail on the route is not so large as 70