Washington telegraph., 1851-10-01

nIds Tor weekly trips will be considered.
ooo~ from Round Pond by the military road,
crossing White River, Russels Ferry,
sulphur Rock, Hamilton, Hogan's SetlIe-
ment, and Frost Settlement, to SnitlvilIe,
45 miles, and back once week.
Leave Round Pond every Friday at m;
Arrive at SmithvilIe next day by 5 m;
Leave Smthve every Thursday at a m;
Arrive at Round Pond next day by ii M;
oUS3 From Stewards Store, by Gates to Cog
burns in Clark county, miles, and back
once week.
Bidders should state schedule of arrivals and
departures; also distance.
Form Of Bid.
(or WEI of propose to carry the
mails on route No. from to
agreeably to the advertisement of the Postmaster
General dated 9th August, 1851, and by the fol-
lowing mode of conveyance. viz:
for the annual sum Of dollars.
Dated. Signed
Form of Guaranty.
The undersigned undertake that if the FORE
going bid for carrying the mail on route No.
be accepted by the Postmaster General the bidder
shall, prior to the 5th day of February next,
enter into the required obligation to perform the
service proposed, with good and sufficient sureties.
Dated. (Signed by two guarantorsi
Form Of Certificate.
The undersigned, postmaster of cerfes
that he is well acquainted with the above guaran-
tors and their property, and that they are men
of property, and able to make good their guaranty
Dated Signed.
Notice and InSt3Ucta0,aS to Bidders.
/. Seven minutes are allowed to intermediate
pos for asserting the mails when other
wise specified by the schedules.
2. 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 excuse be not sent in.
Fines may be imposed for arrivals after time; also
for failing to take or deliver the entire mail.
3. The Postmaster General may annul the con-
tract for repeated failures, for violating the post
Office laws, or far dlsobeying the instructions of
the Department. aH
A. The Postmaster General may discontinue or
curtai the serv;e, and the pay accordingly, on
allowing one months extra pay on the amount
dispensed with He may also increase the length
or number Of the trips at pro rata pay, the con-
tractor having TIE right to relinquish the contract,
on giving timelg notice, if he prefer it to the
change.
S. Additional pay will not be made for excess
of actual over advertised distance (should any such
case occur) if the Offices are correctly named
6. Proposals without the prescribed guaranty, !
postmasters Certificate of the sufficency of the
sureties, not received in the time specified by
the advertisement, combining more than one
route in the sam. sum, cannot BE- accepted
I. Bids for the service dduertised are entitled
to preference, bm those proposing changes therein
will receive consideration.
s. Offices established during the contract period
within quarter of mile of the route TO be |
supplied without extra pay; those further off at
pro rata compensation.
9. Bidders should specify the mode Of convey
ance intended to be used. When this is not done
it will be understood to be horseback.
10. II the accepted bidders fail 10 execute con.
tract, or to commence and continue service agree
ably to their proposals. they, or their guarantors
sureties, will be liable to suit for the damages
resulting from relettlng of the route.
H. Contracts to be executed by the 18th
day February, 1852.
l2. The bids should contain the bidders name
and residence, and, if company offer, those of
each member OF the firm and should be addressed
TO the First Assistant Postmaster General, and
endorsed Small proposals in the State Of"
For further particulars as 10 conditions of bid
ding, and the forms Of the contracts required, see
advertisement for proposals for carrying the mails
issued January Is, 1851.
NJ K. HALL,
Postmaster General
Post Office Department, Aug. 9, 1851. 1856