The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-11-21

tans any Of the above alterations, their viii
be estimated in comparing il with other proposals.
IA. There should be bat one route bid for in pro-
posal.
Is. The route, the service, the yearly pay the bidders
and residence and the of each member of the
hrm where company offers should be distinctly stated
also the mode OF conveyance, If higher mode than
horseback Is intended.
6 The bid should be under seal addressed 10 the
First Assistant Postmaster General with Mail Proposals
in the State of " written the face Of the letter and
should be despatched in be received by or before the
5th February at 10 o'clock IL should be guar
anued and the sufeency OF the guaanos should be duly
II The be executed by or before the list
of July next e
l6 Postmssiers Offices situated upon near railroads.
but than eighty rods from depot, will
after the 5h February next report that fact tho depart
meat stating their distance from the railroad depot
and how otherwise supplied with the mail enable the
Postmaster General direct the proper supply be made
from the railroad by mail messengers from and after the LIST
Of july next
10 Under the act of March g. 1885, the route is to he LET
the lowest bidder rendering sufficient guarantees for faith
full performance without other reference the mode of
transportation than may be necessary provide for the due
CELEBRITY certainty, and security of such transportation
When the lowest bid proposes specific mode of convey
that is inadequate for the route IN respect the
tanty security and CELEBRITY OF the mails, aside from any
accommodations for travel will not be entitled
90 When the bid does not name mode of conveyance,
will be taken and understood to be for the lowest mode Of
conveyance, to wit on horseback When it proposes TO
carry according the advertisement and of
veyance il stated for the the advertisement will
be considered offering only for horseback
a. Since the passage of tho act of March g. l845,
description of bid has been received 1t specifies
mode of conveyance but engages to the mail with
certainty celebrity and security, using the Of the law
These bids called from the manner IN which they are
designated the books of the department, 'siar bids
The experience Of the department enables it lay down
| the following rules, viz: #..
When the mail on the route large require
horse coach conveyance star bid il the lowest, will
| always be preferred 10 the specific bid. aE Ell
When the mails of such and weight render
necessary in reference TO them alone to provide two
coach the specific bid though the highest
for coach service if adudged to be entirely sufficient for
the route will be preferred the bid the differ
not such to interfere with the policy OF the law OF
S45 which looks reduction the Of transportation
Exceptions however, may be allowed where tho star bid -
made by Of the stock used tho route in the
| performance Of coach service. t.tt
On routes of the highest class where ourhorse coach
transportation 10 required by the and import
of the nails and the specific bid il adudged entirely
sufficient for the route the preference for the specific bid will
carried greater extent of difference than
| on the inferior coach routes.
%. modification of bid, in any of its essential terms,
bid and cannot be received 10 as TO
interfere with regular competon after the last hour set for
receiving bids. As
90 Postmasers required be careful and not to certify
the suciency of guaranors sureies without knowing
that they are persons of sufficient responsibility and all
bidders guarantors surees distinctly notified that on
failure perform the contracts for the service
proposed for in the accepted bids their liabilities VIII be
| enforced against them.
"a The contracts will be substantially the forms here
used this department. except IN the respects par
ticulany mentioned these instructions and conditions
and all railroad and steamboat routes the contractors will
be required deliver the mails into the post Offices at the
ends Of the and into all the intermediate post offices
not more Than eighty rods from the railroad landing.
IS. Present and persons known at the de-
partmen must equally with Others procure guaranors and
certificates of their sufcency substantially IN the forms
above prescribed The certificates of suiciency must be
iened by postmaster, judge clerk Of court of
| record. N. X. HALL, Postmaster General
ST OrrcE DEPARTMENT, September ~, 1851.
ual Of the routes and upon all alterations Of
which they shall be officially informed.
" rostmasters will not permit the mails to be carried
other hours than those here set down.
| without the written order of the department.
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