The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-01-17
INSTRUCTIONS,
Embracing certain conditions. which ~iH Be
Incorporated IN The contracts

Seven minutes are allowed Tor opening and closing the
mails at all offices where particular time is specified but
railroad and steamboat routes there be delay
thau is necessary to deliver and receive the bags.
The mail to be conveyed in preference passengers,
and TO their entire exclusion, If weight and bulk require it.
g. Post office blanks, mail bags, and the special agents of
the Department. the exhibition of their credentials
be conveyed without further charge, mail lines admitting
OF such conveyance.
A. Mail agents to be conveyed without charge the
principal railroad and steamboat lines, where the size of the
mails and the number of The offices will require their employ
meh py the Department. and that separate apart
men Tor the exclusive OF the Department and agent for
the asserting and aiekeepng the mail be provided by
the contractor, under the direction of the Department.
D. In all cases there TO BIO forfeiture of the pay of the
np when the trip is not and of than three
times the pay OF the trip when the trip rum and suf
hcient excuse Tor the failure furnished forfeiture
oneourh part OF when the unning arrival far behind
time lose the connexion with depending mail and
eture of due proportion when grade of is render
ed inferior to that the contract These oreiures NAV
creased into penalties higher amount, according
frequency of the failure and the Importance of the mail
6. Fines will be imposed unless the delinquency
factorly explained in due lime for failing FROM
deliver at post office, the mall any part OF it for suffer-
ing it be wet injured lost desoyed conveying it
in place manner that exposes to Depreciation loss,
injury for refusing after demand to convey mail by any
coach, railroad steamboat which the contractor regu
ay the beyond the specified number OF trips
the contract, and for not arriving at The time and for
setting up running express to transmit commercial in
egence in advance of the mail penalty will be exacted
equal to quarters pay.
The Postmaster General may annul the contract tor
peaed failures for violating the post office laws; for dis
obeyihg the instructions of the Department; for refusing
discharge carrier when required by the Department. for
signing the contract without the consent of the Postmaster
General for setting running express aforesaid.
g. The Postmaster General may alter the contract and alter
the schedule he allowing pro rata increase compensation,
within the restrictions imposed by law, for the additional
required for the increased speed if the employment of
additional stock carriers rendered necessary but the
may such case renqush the contract timely
notice. he prefers the change The Postmaster Gene
raj annu the contract cua the service and pay when
he wishes to dispense with the service in whole part
place higher different grade of service the route he al
lowing months extra pay the amount dispensed with.
g. The payments will be made through drafts post offices
otherwise, after the expiration of each quarersny Feb
ruary, May, August and November
TO- The distances given according to the best inforna-
tom but increased pay will be allowed houldthey to
be greater than advertised the places correctly named
III. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law from
knowingly making for the transportation of the mail
with any person who shall have entered into any combination,
proposed to enter into any combination, to prevent the
making of any bid Tor mail contract by any other person
persons, who shall have made any agreement shall
given performed promised to give PERFORM
sideation do, do, thing whatever to induce
any other person bid for mail contract Particular
tenon called to the 18th section of the act of 1886, prohi
biting combinations to prevent bidding
II. bid received after time, witt the LIST April next at
10 without the guaranty required by law, or that
bnes several in of compensation cannot he
considered competition with the regular proposal not adj
Judged to be extravagant.
10. bidder may offer, where the transportation called for
in the advertisement difficult impraccabe at certain
sons, substitute inferior mode of conveyance in
term service specified number of days, weeks or months
He may propose omit office that inaccessible isnot
the stage road, the railway steamboat landing
the may be he may offer to substitute an inferior
mode of supply in such He may propose different
days and hours of departure and arrival provided no more
running time asked, aud it obvious that mail sonnex
ion other public accommodation is preudiced. He may
ask for running time the trip during specified num-
Der of days. certain of peculiarly bad roads but
beyond these changes, proposal for service different from
the advertisement will prevent its being considered comPo
ton with regular bid aside for extravaganza; and
where bid contains any Of the above alterations their dsad
vantages will be estimated comparing with other proposals
ID There should be but route bid for in proposal
49, The route, the service, tho yearly pay, the bidders
and residence, and the of each member OF the
hrm where company offers, should be distinctly stated
also the mode conveyance if higher mode than on horse
back is intended
l6 The bid should be under SEAL addressed to tho
First Assistant Postmaster General, with Mail Proposals
in the State Territory of written on the face of the
letter and should be dispatched in time to be received by
before the lst April next, 10 o'clock A. M. 1t should
guaranteed aud the sucency of the guaanors should
be duly certified. (See forms
IT. The contracts are to be by before the LIST of
July next
Is. Postmasers offices situated upon railroads.
but more than eighty rods from depot will immediately af-
ter the 10Th April next report that fact to the Department.
stating their exact distance from the railroad depot, and how
otherwise supplied with the mall to enable the Postmaster
General to direct the proper supply to be made from the rail
road by mail messengers from and after the st July next
49, Under the act of March ls45 the route is to be lot
the lowest bidder rendering sufficient guarantees for faith
u performance without other reference to the mode OF trans
poaon than be provide for the due CELEBRITY,
certainty, and security of such transportation.
When the lowest bid proposes mode of conveyance that
inadequate for the respect to the certainty security.
and celebrity of the mails aside from any accommodation Tor
travel, it will not be entitled to the route.
90 When the bid does not mode of conveyance it
will be taken and understood be for the lowest mode of
CONVEYANCE to wit, on horseback. When proposes to
carry according the advertisement and mode OF convey
is stated for the route in the advertisement, will be
considered offering only for horseback conveyance
- Since the passage OF the of March 3, sf5
description of bid has been received. specifies mode of
conveyance but engages carry the mail with certainty
ey and security, using the terms of the law These bids
called from the which they designated
the books of the Department "star bids 1t has been de-
cded after mature considerations that bid proposing spe
conveyance of high grade wo-horse coach
transportation to be preferred to the star bid The expert
ence Department enables to lay down the following
rules, viz
When the mail the is not so large as to require
horse coach bid, IL tue lowest VIII be
preferred to the specific bid.
3D. When the mails of such size and weight to
der it necessary expedcn reference to them Alone
provide coach conveyance the specific bid though
highest will be preferred to the star bid to the extent Of
moderate difference in the compensation in the differ
ence not such interfere with the policy Of the a,
which looks to reduction the of transportation. Ex
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