The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-02-07

Embracing certain conditions, schich soiH b.
incorporated in the contracts.
Seven minutes allowed for opening and closing the
mails at IN Offices whore particular time is specified but
railroad and steamboat routes there be delay
than is necessary deliver and receive the bags
The mail to be conveyed in preference to passengers,
and to their entire exclusion, its weight and bulk require it,
g. Post Office blanks, mail bags, and the special agents of
the Department. exhibition of their credentials
be conveyed without further charge, mail lines admitting
Of such conveyance.
4. Mail agents be conveyed without charge the
principal railroad and steamboat lnes where the size of the
mails and the number of the offices will require their employ
ment by the Department. and in that case separate apart
men Tor the exclusive of the Department and agent for
the asserting and saekeepng Of tho mail be provided by
the contractor under the direction Of the Department
In all there is to DO forfeiture of the pay of the
trip when the trip ID not and of than three
times the pay Of the trip when the trip run, and suf
fcent for the failure furnished forfeiture
one-fourh part of when the running arrival behind
time lose the connection with depending mail and
fixture oa due proportion of when grade service render
ed inferior that in the These oetures may be in
into penalties of higher amount according the
frequency of the failure and the importance of the mail
g. Fines will be imposed unless the delinquency DO salts
actoy explained in due time, for fang take from,
deliver at post Office, the mail any part of it for suffer-
ing TO be wet injured lost destroyed conveying
in place that exposes to depreciation loss,
injury for refusing after demand to convey mail by any
COACH railroad car steamboat which the regu-
ay the beyond the specified number orps ia
the contract and for not arriving the time and for
| commercial
egence in advance Of the mail, penalty will be exactsd
equal to quarters pay.
T. The Postmaster General may annu the contract for
peated failures for violating the post Office laws for dis
obeying the instructions of the Department for refusing
discharge carrier when required by the Department
signing the contract without the consent Of the Postmaster
General for setting up running express aforesaid
g. The Postmaster General alter the contract and alter
the schedule he allowing pro compensation
within the restrictions imposed by law, the additional SER
vice required for the increased speed If the employmento
additional stock carriers is rendered necessary but the
may such CASE enquish the contract on timely
notice. if he prefers to the change. The Postmaster Gene
raj annu the contract curta the service pay when
he wishes 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
Q. The payments will be made through drafts post offices
otherwise after the expiration of each in Feb
ruary, May, August, and November.
TO- The distances given according to the best inorma
ton but increased will be allowed should they
be greater than advertised if the places correctly named
H. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law from
knowingly making contract for the transportation of the mail
with any who sha have entered into any continuation
proposed to enter into any combination to prevent the
making Of any bid for mail contract by any other person
persons who shall have made any agreement shall have
given performed promised to give perform, any
sideIaton do do any thing whatever induce
any other person not to bid for mail contract Particular
tenton called to the 28h section of the act Of 1885, poh
biting combinations TO prevent bidding.
H. bid received after time to wit the LIST April next
10 M or without the guaranty required by law or that COM
compensation,
considered in competition with the regular proposal adj
Judged to be extravagant
49, bidder may Offer where the transportation called
in the advertisement difficult mpnctcable at certain
sons, substitute inferior mode of conveyance, in
term service specified number of days. weeks months.
He may propose omit Office that inaccessible isnot
the stage road, the railway at steamboat landing
the may be he may offer TO substitute inferior
mode of supply in such cases. He may propose different
days and hours of departure and arrival provided
running time asked and it obvious that mail
ion other public accommodation is preudiced He may
ask for running time to the trip, during specified
Der of days. certain of peculiarly bad roads but
beyond these changes proposal for service different from
the advertisement will prevent its being considered in compe
ton with regular bid set aside for extravaganza and
where bid contains any Of the above alterations their sad
vantages will be estimated in comparing with other proposals
ID. There should be but bid for in proposal
l5 The route, the service tho yearly pay the bidders
and residence and the of each member of the
firm, where company Offers should DO distinctly stated;
also the mode Of if higher mode than horse
back is intended.
l6 The bid should be sent under SEAL addressed to the
First Assistant Postmaster General with Mail Proposals
the State Territory of " written the face Of the
letter and should be dispatched in time to be received by
before the LIST April next, 10 o'clock A. M. 1t should
be guaranteed and the sucency of the guaranors should
be duly certified. (see forms
H. The be executed before the LIST Of
July next.
la Postmasters offices situated upon or railroads
but than eighty rods from depot will Immediately af
the 18th April next report that fact the Department,
exact rallrOad
otherwise supplied with the mail enable the Postmaster
General to direct the proper supply to be made from the rail-
road by mail messengers from and after tho LIST July
49, Under the of March 1885, the route TO be let
the lowest bidder rendering sufficient guarantees for faith
full performance without other reference the mode of trans
poaton than may be necessary provide for the due celebrity
certainty, and security of such transportation.
When the lowest bid proposes mode of conveyance that
inadequate for the in respect the certainty security
and celebrity of the mails aside from any accommodation for
travel it will not be entitled to the route.
20. When the bid does not mode of conveyance, it
will be taken and understood to be for the lowest mode of
conveyance, wit on horseback. When ii proposes
carry according the advertisement and mode of convey
stated for the route in the advertisement will be
considered as offering only for horseback conveyance.
81. Since the passage Of the act of March 3, 1845,
description of bid has been received 1t specifies mode of
conveyance but engages carry the mail with certainty,
ery, and security, using the terms of the law These bids
called from the in which they designated
the books of the Department. "sar bids 1t has been de-
cided, after consideration, that bid proposing spe-
c mode of conveyance of high grade twohorse coach
transportation is be preferred to The bid. The expert
of the Department enables to lay down the following
rules viz
When the mail the route is not large require
horse coach conveyance, bid if the lowest will be
preferred to the specific bid
a. When the mails Of such size and weight rem
der it necessary expedent in reference to them alone
provide twohose coach the specific bid though
the highest will be preferred the bid the Of
moderate difference in the compensation, in the differ
ence is such 10 interfere with the policy of the law
which looks reduction in the cost of transportation Ex-