Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-04-25

<sMal Proposals in rname the State territory,l'
written on 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. 1t
should be guaranteed, and the sufhciency Of the
guarantors should be duly certified, lsee forms.)
II. The contracts to be executed by or before
the list July next. sE
Is. Postmasters at Offices situated upon or near
railroads, but more than eighty rods from depot,
will Immediately after the nth May next, report
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 to be made from
the railroad by mail from and after the
LIST July next. ....
10. Under the act of March 3, 1916, 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 70
the certainty, security, and celebrity of the mails,
aside from any accommodation for travel, it will
not be entitled to the route.
20. When the bid does not name a 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
is stated for the route in the advertisement, it will
be considered as offering only for horseback Goa
yeyancc.
81. Since the passage Of the act Of March 3, 1s45,
a new description Of bid has been received. 1t
specifies no mode Of conveyance, but engages to
carry the mail with certainty, CELEBRITY, and securi-
ty, using the terms Of the law. These bids cal
led, from the manner in which they designated
on the books of the Department., sssfar bids.'' 1t
has been decided, after mature consideration, that
a bid proposing specifcmode of conveyance of as
high grade as two-horse coach transportation is
to be preferred to the star bid. The experience of
the Department enables it to lay down the follow
ing rules, viz:
When the mail 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 Of such size and weight
as TO render 1t necessary or expedent, in reference
to them alone, to provide two horse coach convey
ance, the specific bid, though the highest, will be
preferred to the star bid, to the extent Of mode
rate difference in the compensate in the diff
ference is not such to interfere with the policy Of
the new law, which looks to reduction in the cost
Of transportion. Exceptions, however, may be
allowed, where the star bid is made by the pre- sent
owner OF the stock on the route, and il is manifest
that the reasons for preferring the specific bid do
not exist in his case.
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, if necessary,
carried to greater extent of difference than on the
inferior coach routes, subject, however, to the
Ceptions above stated.
-. modification of bid, in any Of its essen
tial terms, is tantamount to a new bid, and cannot
be received, so to Interfere with regular COM
petition, after the last hour set for receiving bids.
J. COLLAMER, Postmaster Genera
POsr OFFICE DEPARTMENT.. January 1850.