The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-09-25
Form Of a Bid.


| (orwe) of propose to carry the
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
cral 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 suretics.
Dated. (Signcd by two guar's.)
Form Of Ccnifcote.
The undersigned, postmaster Of GER
tifes that he is well acquainted with the a
boye guarantors and their property, and that
they are men of property, and able to make
good their guaranty.
Dated. Signed.
Notice and Instructions to Bi7lcrs.
Seven minutes are allowed to interme-
date postmasters, for asserting the mails
when net otherwise specified by the schedule
? Pay will not be made for trips not run
and the deductions for failures to perform
the same may be increased to three time.
the contract pay therefor if a sufficient ex
cuso 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.
s. The Postmaster General may annu
he contract for repeated failures, for viola
ting the post office laws, or for dlsobeyin!
: the instructions Of the Department
4. The Postmaster General may discon
-inue or curtail the service, and the pay ac
: cordingly, on allowing one months extr
J. pay on the amount dispensed with. He ma
also increase the length or number of tn
a trips at pro rata pay, the contractor havin
the right to relinqui>h the contract, on giN
ing timely notice, if he prefer it to tn
, change.
5. Additional pay Will not be made fc
excess of actual over advertised distanC
Should any such case occur if the office
are correctly named.
6. Proposals without the prescribed gu;
r ranty, or postmaster's certificate of the suli
Il cheney of the sureties, or not received in ii
c time specified by the advertisement, or con
J. bining more thanone route in the same sun
) cannot be accepted.
m T. Bids for the service as adUertised a
entitled to preference, but those proposir
changes therein will receive consideration.
8. Offices established during the contra
period withina quarter of mile of the rou
- are to be supplied without extra pay; tho
in further off at pro rata compensation.
re 9. Bidders should specify the mode
ID conveyance intended to be used.
= When this is not done it viii be undo
1, stood to be horseback.
TO- IF the accepted bidders fail to execu
contract, or to commence and continue s.
: vice agrceably to their proposals, they,
D their guarantors or surcties, will be liable
2 suit for the damages resulting from
letting Of tue route.
IL. Contracts are to be executed by I
Ia 18th day Of February, 1852.
of r. The bids should contain the bidd,
~ name and residence, and, ifa company off
=; those of each member Of the firm, and sho1
u be addressed to the First Assistant Postm
Ie. ter General, and endorsed Mail proposals
", the State Of"
(, For further particulars as toconditions
nm bidding and the forms of the contracts
quired, sec advertisement for proposals
II, carrying the mails issued january Is, Is!
s.. also pamphlet edition Of this advertiser,
IN soon to be issued N. *. HALL,
.he Postmaster Geuel
Hyi PosT OFFfcE ID FPA RTsfESq Aug 9.