The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-02-15
INSTRUCTIONS.

mails all offices where particular time specified but
railroad and steamboat routes there to be delay
than is necessary to deliver and receive the bags
q The mail to be conveyed in preference passengers
and to their entire exclusion if its weight and bulk require
3. Post office blanks mail bags, and the special agents Of
the Department. the exhibition of their credentials
be conveyed, without further charge, mail lines admitting
! of such conveyance.
A. Mail agents be conveyed without charge on the
principal railroad and steamboat lines where the size of the
mails and the number Of the offices will require their employ
by the Department and that case separate apart
for the asserting and safekeeping of the mail be
provided by the contractors under the direction of the Depart
ment
5. In all there is to be forfeiture of the pay of the
trip when the trip forfeiture of least fourth
part of when the running arrival far behind time
lose the connexion with depending mail and forfeiture
of due proportion of when grade Of service is rendered
inferior that in the contract These orfeitues may be
increased into penalties Of higher amount according the
frequency of the failure and the importance of the
mail
6. Fines will be imposed unless the delinquency be salts
facorily explained in due time, for failing take FROM
deliver post Office, the mail, any part of for suffer
ing it to be wet injured lost destroyed conveying it
in place manner that exposes to depreciation, loss
injury for refusing after demand convey mail by any
coach, railroad car steamboat which the contractor regu
larly the route beyond the specified number of trips
in the contract and for not arriving at the time and for
setting up running express to transmit commercial in
teigence in advance of the mail, penalty will be exaced
equal to quarters pay.
T. The Postmaster General may annu the contract for re-
peaed failures for violating the post office laws for dsobey
ing the instructions of the Department for refusing to dis
charge carrier when required by the Department. for
signing The contract without the consent of the Postmaster
General or for setting up running express aforesaid
s. The Postmaster General may alter the contract and alter
the schedule he allowing pro increase of compensation
within the restrictions imposed by law for the additional
required or for the increased speed the employment of
additional stock carriers rendered necessary but the
contractor such relnqush the contract time
y notice. if be prefers to the change. The Postmaster
General may annu the contract curta the service and pay
ha
part place higher different grade Of service the
route, he allowing months extra pay the dis
pensed with,
The payments will be made through drafts on post offices
otherwise, after the expiration of each quaesay in Feb
ruary, May, August, and November.
10. The distances given according the informa
ton but increased pay will be allowed should they prove
to be greater than advertised if the places correctly
named.
IL. The Postmaster General prohibited by law from
knowingly making contract for the transportation of the mail
with person who shall have entered any combination
proposed to enter into any combination, prevent the
making of any bid for mail by any other person
persons, who shall have made agreement shall have
given or performed, promised to give perform, any
sderaton to do not to do any thing whatever induce
other person not to bid for mail contract Particular
tenton is called to the 2sh section of the of 1885, proh
biting combinations to prevent bidding.
H. bid received after time w.t. the 9th April next at
10 without the guaranty required by law that
bne several routes In of compensation, be
considered in competition with regular proposal not adj
Judged to be extravagant
49, bidder may Offer where the transportation called for
in the advertisement difficult impractcabe
to substitute inferior mode of conveyance in
tenit service specified number Of days. weeks months
He may propose omit Office that inaccessible not
the stage road the railway, steamboat landing,
the may be or he may offer to substitute inferior
mode OF supply In such He may propose different
days and hours Of departure and arrival provided
running time Is asked and it is obvious that mail
ion other public accommodation prejudiced He may
ask for more running time TO the trip during specified
Der of days, certain of peculiarly bad roads
beyond these changes proposal for service different from
the advertisement will prevent being considered compe
ion with regular bid aside for extravaganza and
where bid contains any of the above alterations their dsad
vanages will be estimated in comparing with other proposals
ID There should be but bid for in proposal
Is The route the service the yearly pay the bidders
and residence, and the of each member Of the
firm, where company offers should be distinctly stated also
the mode of conveyance if higher mode than horseback
is intended
Is. The bid should be sent under seal, addressed the
First Assistant Postmaster General with Mail Proposals
name the State and Territory u written on the face of the
letter and should be dispatched in time be received
before the 9Th April next at 10 o'clock A. M 1t should he
guaranteed and the secency of the guaranors should be
duly certified (See forms
IT, The be executed by or before the LIST
July next
49, Postmaersa offices upon near railroads. but
more than eighty rods from depot, will Immediately after
the 18th May next report that fact TO the Department stating
their exact distance from the railroad depot and how other
wise supplied with the mail enaba.he Postmaster Gene
raj TO direct the proper supply be eie from the railroad by
mail messengers, from and after the first July
49, Under the act OF March g. lS45 the is be let
to the lowest bidder rendering sufficient guarantees for faith
fol performance, without other reference the mode Of
poaon than may be necessary provide for the due
ity, certainty, and security Of such transportation
When the lowest bid proposes mode of conveyance that
inadequate for the route in respect the certainty security
and celebrity Of the mails, aside any accommodation for
travel, il will not be entitled TO the route
20. When the bid does name a mode of conveyance
will be taken aud undesto be for the lowest mode
conveyance, TO wit on horseback. When il proposes to
according to the advertisement and mode Of convey
is stated for the in the advertisement il will be
considered as offering only for horseback conveyance.
81. Since the passage Of the of March g. l645,
description Of bid has been received 1t specifies mode Of
conveyance but engages TO carry the mail with certainty,
y, and security, using the Of the law These bids
called from the in which they designated
the books Of the Department, star bids" 1t has been de-
cded after mature consideration, that bid proposing spe-
cc mode of Of high grade
transportation is to be preferred the bid The expert
Of the Department enables it TO lay down the following
rules, viz
When the mail the is not large as to require
two horse coach conveyance star bid il the lowest, will be
preferred to the specific bid
30 When the mails Of such size and weight as 10
der necessary expedieni in reference them alone
provide twohose coach conveyance the specific bid though
the highest will be preferred TO the bid, the Of
moderate difference in the compensation in the der
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