The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-09-18
Form, of a Bid.

Form, Of a Bid
mails on route No. from to
agreeably to the advertisement of the Post
master General dated 9th August, 1851,
and by the following mode Of conveyance viz:
for the annual sum of dollars
Dated. Signed
Form of a Guaranty.
The undersigned undertake that if the
foregoing bid for carrying the mail on route
No. be accepted by the Pos master Gen
eral the bidder shall, prior to the 18th day
.of February next, enter into the required
obligation to perform the service proposed,
with good and sufficient sureties.
Dated. (Signed by two guar's.)
Form Of Certificate.
The undersigned, postmaster of GER
titles that he is we'll acquainted with the a
bove guarantors and their property, and that
they are men of property, and able to make
good their guaranty.
Dated. Signed
Notice and Instructions to Bidders.
l Seven minutes are allowed to interme-
date postmasters, for asserting the mails
when not otherwise specified by the schedule.
| q Pay will not be made for trips not run;
and the deductions for failures to perform
the same may be increased to three times
the contract pay therefor if sufficient ex.
cuse be not sent in. Fines may may be i'm
posed for arrivals after time; also for failing
to take or deliver the entire mail.
g. The Postmaster General may annu
the contract for repeated failures, for viola
ting the post Office laws, or for disobeyint
the instructions of the Department.
4. The Postmaster General may discon
tinue or curtail the service, and the pay &C
: cordingly, on allowing one months extr
pay on the amount dispensed with. He ma,
also increase the length or number of tn
trips at pro rata pay, the contractor having
the right to reinquish the contract, on Civ
ing timely notice, if he prefer it to tn
f, change.
5. Additional pay will not be made 70
excess of actual over advertised distanc
Should any such case occur) if the Office
are correctly named.
g. Proposals without the prescribed gu;
: ranty, or postmaster's certificate of the suh
# cheney of the sureties, or not received in th
e time specified by the advertisement, or con
! bining more than one route in the same sun
! cannot be accepted.
n z. Bids for the service as advertised al
entitled to preference, but those proposin
changes therein will receive consideration.
8. Offices established during the contra
period within quarter of a mile of the rout
n are to be supplied without extra pay; tho
q further off at a pro rata compensation.
e g. Bidders should specify the mode
a conveyance intended to be used
4 When this is not done it will be unde
(, stood to be horseback.
TO- If the accepted bidders fail to exeeu
contract, or to commence and continue sc
vice agreeably to their proposals, they,
, their guarant0rs or sureties, will be liable
s Ia suit for the damages resulting from j
letting of the route.
IL Contracts are to be executed by t
ID 18th day Of February, 1852.
of II. The bids should contain the biddt
n name and residence, and, if a company off
n. those Of each member of the firm, and shor
y be addressed to the First Assistant Postm
le ter General, and endorsed Mail proposals
", the State
s For further particulars as to conditions
hi bidding, and the forms Of the contracts
lquired, see advertisement for proposals
y carrying the mails issued January 10, Is;
81. also pamphlet edition Of this advertisemi
in soon to beissued. N. X. HALL,
The Postmaster Genei
~ Posr OFFIcE DEPARTMENT, Aug. 8