Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-03-21
BURLINGTON HAWK-EYE.

email Proposals in [name the State or territory,p
written the the face Of the letter. and should be
dispatched In time to be received BY or before
the 18th April next, at 10 O'Clock A. N. II
should be guaranteed, and the sufhciency OF the
guarantors should be duly certified, (see forms.)
II. The contracts are TO be executed BY or before
the LIST July next.
10. Postmasters at ofices situated upon or near
railroads, but more than eighty rods from depot,
will Immediately after the nth May next, report
that fact to the Department, stating their exact dis
lance from the railroad depot, and how otherwise
supplied with the mail, to enable the postmaster
General TO direct the proper supply 70 De mace from
the railroad by mail from and after the
lst July next.
10. Under the act Of March ;, ls46, the route is
to be let to the lowest bidder rendering sufficient
guarantees for faithful performance, without other
reference to the mode Of than may be
necessary to provide for the due celebrity, certain
ty. and security Of such transportation.
When the lowest bid proposes mode OF convey
ance that Is inadequate for the route in respect to
the certainty, security, and CELEBRITY Of the mails,
not be entitled to the route.
20. When the bid does not name = mode OF
conveyance, it will be taken and understood to be
for the lowest mode Of conveyance, to wit, on
horseback. When it proposes to carry according
to the advertisement, and NO mode OF conveyance
10 stated for the route in the advertisement, will
be considered a. offering only for horseback con-
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80 SAMSS PeSsdso VI sS oStoA N"iSiA . 1865
. new description Of bid has been received. 1t
specifies no mode OF conveyance, but engages to
carry the mail with certainty, celebrity, and seeuri
~, using THE terms Of the law. These bids are cal
led, from the manner in which they are designated
on the books OF the Department., "stdr bids" II
has been decided, after mature consideration, that
bid proposing specific mode of conveyance OF as
high grade as twO-horse coach transportation is
to be preferred TO the bid. The experience of
the Department enables it TO lay down the follow
Ing rules, viz:
When the msil on the route is not so large as to
require two horse coach conveyance, star bid, if
the lowest, will be preferred to the specific bid.
~. When the mails are OF such size and weight
~ TO render II necessary expeient, in reference
to them alone, to provide two horse coach convey
ance, the specific bid, though the highest, will be
preferred 10 the star bid, to the extent Of mode
rate difference in the in case the diff
ference IL not such to interfere with the policy OF
the new law, which looks 10 reduction in the cost
Of transportion. Exceptions, however, may be
SLOWED, where the star bid 10 made by the present
owner OF the stock on the route, and 1t is manifest
that the reasons for preferring the specific bid do
not exist in his case.
-. On routes Of the highest class, where four
horse coach or steamboat transportation is requir-
ed by the size and importance of the mails, the pre-
ference for the specific bid will be, ii necessary,
carried to greater extent OF difference than on the
inferior coach routes, subject, however, to the ex
ceptions above stated.
-. A modification Of bid, in any of its essen
be received, as to interfere with regular COM
petition, after the last hour set for receiving bids.
J. COLLAMER, Postmaster General.
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