Washington telegraph., 1850-02-27

These forleitures may be increased INTO penalties
| of higher amount, according to the nature or ire
quency Of the failure and the Importance OF the
| mail.
| 6. Fines will be imposed unless the delinquency
be satisfactorily explained in due time, for failing
to take from deliver at, post Office, the mai,
any part of il: for suffering it to be wet, injured
| lost, or destroyed; conveying il in place or
manner that exposes it to degradation, loss, or in
| jury; for refusing after demand 10 convey mail
by any coach, railroad car, or steamboat, which
the contractor regularly runs on the route beyond
| the specified number of trips in the contract, and
for not arriving at the time set; and for setting up
or running an express TO transmit commercial in
telligence in advance of the mail, penalty will
be exactej equal TO aquarter's pay.
T. The Postmaster General NAV annul the con-
tract for repeated failures; for violating the post
office laws; for disobeyng the Instructions Of the
Department. for refusing to discharge a carrier
when required by the Department: for assigning
the contract without the consent OF the Postmaster
General, or for setting up or running express as
aforesaid.
8. The Postmaster General may alter the con-
tract, and alter the schedule, he allowing pro
rata increase of compensation, within the resric-
tons imposed by law, for the additional service
required, or for the increased speed, if the employ
ment of additional stock or carriers is rendered
necessary; but the contractor may, in such case,
reiinqush the contract, on timely notice, if he pre-
Emay annul the contract or curta 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 amount dispensed with.
| 9. The payments will be made through drafts
| on post Offices or otherwise, after the expiration
| of each quarter-say IN February, May, August
| and November.
l0. 4 he distances are given according to the
best information; but no Increased pay will be al
| lowed should they prove 10 be greater than is ad-
| versed, if the places are correctly named.
| III. The Postmaster General is prohibited by
law from knowingly making contract for the
transportation of the mail with any person who
| shall have entered into any Coordination or pro.
| posed to enter into any combination, TO preven,
| the making Of any bid for a NAL contract by anv
other person or persons, 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 Par
ticuar attention is called to the 2Sth section of the
act of 1896, prohibiting combinations to prevent
| bidding
H. A bid received, after time, to wit. the 10th
| April next, at III IN, or without the guaranty re-
qulred by law, that combines several routes in
one sum OF compensation, cannot be considered
in competition with regular proposal not ad-
| judged to be extravagant.
taton called for in the advertisement is difficult
OF impracticable at certain seasons TO substitute
an inferior mode of conveyance, or to intermit
service specified number Of days, weeks or
| months. lie may propose to omit an office
that is inaccessible, or is not on the stage road
| the railway, or at steamboat andino as the
case may be; or he may offer TO substitute an
inferior mode Of supply in such cases He NAV
propose different days and hours OF departure
and arrival, provided more running time Ia
asked, and 1t is Obvious that no mail connection
or other public accommodation is preiudiceG-
lie may ask for more running time 10 the trip
during a specified number of days at certain
seasons of peculiarly bad roads; but beyond these
changes proposal for service different from the
advertisement will prevent IFS being considered
IN competition with regular bid not set aside
! for extravagance; and where a bid contains any
| of the above alterations. their Disadvantages
will be estimated in comparing it with other
| proposals.
II. There should be but one route bid for in
proposal.
10. 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 mod,
of conveyance, il higher mode than Oh horse
| back is intended.
l6. The bid should be sent uuder seal, address
sed TO the First Assistant Postmaster General.
| with Mail Proposals in nane the State and
IerritoTy,I written on the face Of The letter: anJ
should be dispatched in time to be received bv or
before the 10th April next, at 10 o'clock A. NJ
1t should be guaranteed, and the suificency of the
guarantors should be duly certified. (See forms.)
Il. The contracts are TO be executed by or be-
fore the LIST July next.
Ia. Postmdsters at Offices situated upon or near
railroads, but more than eighty rods from depot.
will Immediately after the llth Nay next, report
that fact TO the Department, stating their exact
distance from the railroad depot, aud how other
wise supplied with the mail, to enable .he Post
master General TO direct the proper supply TO be
made from the railroad by mail messengers from
and after the lst July next.
| l9. Under the act Of March 3, iS45 the route
IS TO be LET to the lowest bidder, rendering sufficient
guarantees for faithful performance, without other
reference TO the mode of transportation than NAV
be necessary to provide for the due celeuty, GER
tainty, and security Of such traDspcrtat on
When the lowest bid proposes a mode Of con-
veyance that IS inadequate for the route in respect
TO the certainly, security, aud celebrity oftbe mails
aside from any accommodation for travel il will not
be entitled TO the route.
90 When the bid does not name a mode of con-
veyance, 1t VIII be taken and understood 10 be for
! the lowest mode oil conveyance, 10 wit, on horse
back. when 1t proposes 10 carry according 10 the
advertisement, and no mode OF conveyance is stat
! ed for the route in the advertisement, il will be
considered as offering only for horseback convey
| ance.
2l. Since the passage Of the act of March g.
lo45. new description of bid has been received
1t specifies n" mode of conveyance, but en-
| cages to carry the mail with certainty. CELEBRITY,
aud security, using the terms OF the law These
bids called, from the manner in which they are
| designated on the books of the Department "star
| bids 1t has been decided, after mature con-
sideration, that bid proposing a specific mode of
conveyance of as high a grade as two horse coach
Transportation is to be preferred to the star bid
The experience Of the Department enables i to
! lay down the following rules, viz:
| When the mail on the route Is not so arpe as to