Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-02-14
INSTRUCTIONS.

I. Seven minute. are allowed for opening and
closing the mails at all offices where no particular
time is specified but on railroad and steamboat
routes there is to be more delay than is neces-
sary to deliver and receive the bags.
2. The mail is to be conveyed in preference TO
passengers, and to their entss exclusion, II its
weight and bulk require II.
9. Post office blanks, mail bags, and the special
agents of the Department., Oh the exhibition OF
their credentials, are to be conveyed without fur
Their charge, on mail lines admitting Of such con-
| veyance. SO
1. Mail agents are to be conveyed without charge
on the prnci pal railroad and steamboat lines, where
the size of the mails and the number Of the offices
will require their employment by the Department;
and in that case, separate apartment for the as
sorting and safe keeping of the mail is to be pro-
vided by the contractor, under the direction Of the
Department.
s. In all cases there is to be forfeiture OF the
pay OF the trip when the trip is not run; forfeiture
OF at least onefourth part of 1t when the running
arrival is far behind time as to lose the con-
nexion with depending mail and forfeiture of a
due proportion of il when grade Of service is rem
dered inferior to that in the contract. These for
FIXTURES may be increased into penalties Of higher
amount, according TO the nature or frequency 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, Or deliver at post office, the mail, or
any part OF it for suffering to be wet, injured,
lost, or destroyed or conveying 1t ia place or
manner that exposes it to depreciation, loss, in
| jury 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 intelli-
gence i'll advance of the mail, penalty VIII be ex-
acted equal to quarters pay.
| 7. The Postmaster General may annul the con-
tract for repeated failures; for violating the post
office laws for disobeyiag 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, for setting up or running an express as
| aforesaid.
s. The Postma ster General may alter the con-
tract, and alter the Schedules he allowing pro rata
increase Of compensation, within the restrictions
imposed by law, for the additional service required
or for the increased speed, if the employment OF
additional stock or carriers is rendered
but the contractor may, In such casc rellnGuish the
contract, timely notice, II he prefers It to the
change. The Postmaster General may annul the con-
tract or curtai the service and pay, when he wish
es to dispense with the service, in whole in part
| or place higher or different grade OF service on
the route he allowing one months extra pay on the
| amount dispened with. 49,
9. The payments will be made through drafts on
on post offices or otherwise, after the expiration OF
each quarter-ssy in February, May, August, and
November.
10. The distances are given according to the est
information; but no increased pay will be allowed
| prove, 10 DC 6IcdtCi 20
| if the places correctly named.
IL. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law
| from knowingly making contract for the trans
| portation of the mail with any person who shall
have entered into any combination, or proposed 10
enter into any combination, to prevent the making Oh
any bid for a mail contract by any other person or
persons, or who shall have made any agreement, or
shall have given or performed, or promised to give
or perform, any consideration TO DO, Or not 10 90,
any thing whatever to induce any other person not
| IN far vail attention
called the 2sth section Of the act OF 1885, prohi
biting combinations to prevent oidalns.
| IL. A bid received after time, to wit, the 18TH
April next, at 10 m, or without the guaranty re-
| auired by law, or that combines several routes In
| one sum of compensation, cannot be considered in
competition with the regular proposal not adjudged
! to be extravasant.
10. A bidder may offer, where the transportation
called for in the advertisement is difficult or ini-
practicable at certain seasons, to substitute an in
| ferior mode Of conveyance, or to lntermit ser
vice specified number Of days, weeks, or months.
| He may propose to omit an office that is inaccessi-
Bile, is not the stage road the railway, or al
steamboat landing, as the case may be; or he may
| offer to substitute an inferior mode Of supply in
| such cases. He may propose different days eid
hours of departure and arrival, provided no oofe
running time is asked, and 1t IS obvious that no
mail connexion or other public accommodation ~
p,eudiced He may ask for more running time to
the trip, during specified number OF days, at GER
tain seasons Of peculiarly bad roads; but beyond
these changes, aproposal for service different from
the advertisement will prevent Its being consider
! ed in competition with regular bid not set aside
for extravaganza; and where q bid contains any OF
~ above alterations, their disadvantages will be
estimated in comparing it with other proposals.
Ia. There should be but one route bid for IN a
proposal.
Is. The route, the service, the yearly pay, the
bidders name and esidence, and the name of each
member of the firm, where company offers, should
be distinctly stated; also the mode Of conveyance,
il a higher mode than on horseback IS intended.
1s The bid should be sent under seal, addressed
IN the E,rst Assistant Postmaster General, with