The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-08-28
Form, Of a Bid.

Form Of 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
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. (Signcd by two guar S. J
Form Of Certificate.
Bho undersigned, postmaster of GER
tifcs that he is well acquainted with the a.
bove guarantors aud their property, and that
they arc men of property, and able to make
good their guaranty.
Dated. Signed.
Notice and Instructions 10 Bidders.
/ Seven minutes are allowed to interme-
date postmasters, for asserting the mails
when not otherwise specified by the schedule.
2. Pay viii 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 a 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.
B. The Postmaster General may annu
the contract for repeated failures, for viola
ting the post Office laws, or for disobeyinG
the instructions of the Department.
4. The Postmaster General may discon
tinue or curtail the service, and the pay ac
cordingly, on allowing one months extri
pay on the amount dispensed with. he ma,
also increase the length or number of tn
trips at pro rata pay, the contractor haTin!
the right to relinquish the contract, on Civ
ing timely notice, if he prefer it to tn
change.
5. Additional pay viii not be made 70
excess of actual over advertised distanc
Should any such case occur) if the Office
are correctly named.
6. Proposals without the prescribed gu;
ranty, or postmaster's certificate of the suf
! cheney of the sureties, or not received iu til
Z time specified by the advertisement, or con
bining more than one route in the same sun
cannot be accepted,
7. Bids for the service as adcertiscd al
: entitled to preference, but those proposin
: changes therein will receive consideration.
s. Offices established during the contra
period withina quarter of a mile of the rou
are to be supplied without extra pay; tho
: further off at a pro rata compensation.
: 9. Bidders should specify the mode
conveyance intended to be used
When this is not done it will be unde
I stood to be horseback.
0 10. If the accepted bidders fail to execu
r contract, or to commence and continue Sc
vice agreeably to their proposals, they,
:. their guarantors or sureties, will be liable
, suit for the damages resulting from a ]
letting of the route.
IL. Contracts are to be executed by Il
}. 10Th day of February, 1852.
: u. The bids should contain the bidde
7 name and residence, and If company offt
those of each member Of the firm, and shou
: be addressed to the First Assistant Postms
). ter General, and endorsed Mail proposals
the State Of"
For further particulars as to conditions
n bidding, and the forms of the contracts
# quired, see advertisement for proposals
NJ carrying the mails issued January Is, l85
also pamphlet edition Of this adyertiseme
A. soon to be issued. N. K. HALL,
o. Postmaster Gener
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Aug. 9.