Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1850-03-15

5. In all cases there is to be forfeit
ure of the pay of the trip when the trip
is not run; forfeiture of at least one
fourth part Of it when the running or ar
rival is so far behind time as to lose the
connexion with depending mail; and
forfeiture of a due proportion of 1t when
grade of service is rendered interior to
that in the contract. These forleitures
may be increased into penalties of high
err amount, according to the nature or fre-
quency of the failure and Importance OF
the mail.
6. Fines will be imposed unless the
delinquency be satisfactorily explained
in due time, for failing to take from, or
deliver at, post office. the mail, or any
part of it; for suffering it to be wet, nju.
red, lost, or destroyed; or conveying II
in place or manner that exposes it to
depreciation, loss, or Injury, for refusing
after demand TO 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 intel
ligence in advance of the mail, penalty
will be exaced equal to quarters pay.
7. The Postmaster General may annul
the contract for repeated failures; for vi
olating the post Office laws; for disobey-
ing the instruclioes of the Departments;
for refusing to discharge a carrier when
required by the Departments; for assign
ing the contract without the consent of
the Postmaster General, or for setting up
or running an express as aforesaid.
8. The Postmaste General may alter
the contract, and alter the schedule, he
allowing pro rata increase of compen-
salion, within the restrictions 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, reinluish the contract,
on timely notice, if he prefers it to the
change. The Postmaster General NAV
annul the contract or curtail the service
and pay, when he wishes to dispense
with the service, in whole or in part, or
place higher or different grade of SER
vice on the route, he allowing one month
extra pay on the amount dispensed with.
/ 8. The payments will be made through
drafts on post offices or otherwise. after
the expiration of each quar;er--say in
February, May, August, and November.
10. The distances are given according
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pay will be allowed, should they prove
to be greater than is advertised, if the
places are correctly named. ....
IL. The Postmaster General is l,rohb,
tied by law from knowingly making a
contract for transportation of The mail
with any person who shall have entered
into any combination, or proposed to Ell.
ter into any combination, to prevent the
making of any bid for a mail contract
by any other person or persons, or who
, shall haze any agreement, or shall have
given or performed, or promised to give
or perform, any consideration to do, OF
not to do, any thing whatever to induce
any other person not to bid for a mail
contract. Particular attention is caliej
to the 28th section of the act of 1896
prohibiting combinations 10 prevent bid
ding. .. ....... .
IL. A bid received after time, to. wit
; the 10th April next, at 10 m, or with
out the guaranty required by law, or tina
combines several routes in one sum o.
compen sation, cannot be considered il
) competition with the regular proposal
not adjudged to be extravaganza.
5 ID. A bidder may offer, where the
transportation called for in the advertise
ment is difficult or impracticable at Ger
tain seasons, to substitute an inferior
mode of conveyance. or to internit ser.
vice specified number OF days, weeks
or months. He may propose to omit al
. Office that is inaccessible, or is not OF
the stage road, the railway, or at steam
boat landing, as the case may be; or he
e may offer to substitute an inferior mode
t of supply in such cases. He may pro.
pose different days and hours of depar
f. ture and arrival, provided no more run
; ming time is asked, and il is obvious thai
? no mail connexion or other public accom-
mediation is prejudiced. He may ask for
more running time to the trip, during
specified number of days, at certain sea
sons of peculiarly bad roads; but beyont
these changes. proposal for service dit.
ierent from the advertisement will pre-
7 vent its being considered in competition
with regular bid not set aside for ex
. travagance; and where bid contains any
of the above alterations, their disadyan-
I tages will be estimated in comparing i
, with other proposals.
ID. There should be but one route bid
for in proposal.
Is. The ronte, the service, the yearly
I pay, the bidders name and residence,
and the name of each member of The
firm, where company offers, should be
distinctly stated; also the mode of con.
veyance. if higher mode than on horse
back is intended.
Is. The bid should be sent under
seal, addressed to the First Assistant
Postmaster General, with EMAIL PROMO.
sails in name the State or or territory, %