The republic., 1851-01-25

bidders name and residence, and the name of
each member of the hrm, where q company offers,
veyance, If higher mode than horseback Is in:
tended.
i6 The bid should be sent under seal, addressed
70 the First Assistant an posna,ssr Gcnessl. WIN
written on the face of the letter. and sh0uld be dis
patched in time TO be received by or before the lat
of April next, at 10 o'clock, N. Il should be
guaranteed. and the sufficency OF tho guarantors
be duly certified. (See forms
II. The contracts TO be executed by or before
the lst Of July next.
railroads, but than eighty rods from depot,
will immediately after the 18th April next, report
that fAct TO the Department, stating their enact dis
tances from the railroad depot and how otherwise
supplied with the mail, TO enable the Postmaster
General to direct the proper supply to be made Fl om
the railroad BY mail messengers, from and alter
| 49, Under the act of March 3, ls45, the route is
be let 10 the lowest bidder rendering sufficient
guarantees for faithful performance without other
reference 10 the mode Of transportation than may
be necessary to provide for the due celerity cer-
| tainty, and security of such transportation.
| When the lowest bid proposes mode Of convey
the certainty security and celebrity Of the mails.
aside from any accommodation for travel, it will
not be entitled 20 the route.
20. When the bid does not name mode of con-
veyancc, it will be taken and understood to be for
the lowest mode of conveyance, to wit on horse
back. When il proposes to carry according TO the
advertisement, and no mode of conveyance is stated
for the route in the advertisement, It will be
| sidered offering only for horscback conveyance
81 Since the passage Of the act OF March 3, l645,
a new description Of bid has boon received. II spe-
cfes no mode of conveyance. but engages to carry
| the mail with certainty, celebrity, and security,
usng the terms OF the law. These bids are called,
! from the manner in which they are designated on
the books of the Department, "star bids" II has
been decided, after mature consideration, that
| bid proposng specific mode Of conveyance of
high Crude as two horse coach transportation IL
be preferred to the star bid. The experience of
the Department enables it to lay down the follow
| ing rules, viz:
! When the mail on the route is not so large as to
require two-borse coach conveyances star bid, if
the lowest will be preferred to the specific bid
%. When the mails are of such size and weight
as to render 1t necessary or expedient in reference
to them alone, to provide two horse coach convey.
ance, the specific bid, though the highest will be
preferred TO the star bid, 70 the extent of mode
rate difference in the compensation in the diff
ference is not such to interfere with the policy of
the law, which looks TO a reduction in the cost
of transportation. Exceptions, however, may be
allowed, where the star bid is made by the present
owner Of the stock the route, and it is manifest
that the reasons for preferring the specific bid do
not exist in his case
/ %. On routes Of the highest class, where four
horse coach steamboat transportation is required
for the specific bid will be, if necessary,
ricd to,a greater extent of difference than the
inferior coach routes, subject, however, to the ex-
| cepti0ns above stated.
| 81 A modification Of a bid, in any of it's essen
| tal terms, is tantamount TO new bid, and cannot
be received as to interfere with regular comps-
ttion, after the last hour set for receiving bids.
| 25. Postmastcrs are required to be careful and
not to certify the sutficiency OF guarantors
tics without knowing that they are persons of suf-
cicnt responsibility and all bidders, guarantors,
and sureties distinctly notified that on failure
to enter into perform the contracts for the SER
vice proposed for in the accepted bids their legal
liabilities will be enforced against them.
! rs. The contracts will be substantially in the
forms heretofore used in this Department, except
structions and conditions; and all railroad and
steamboat routes the contractors will be required
to deliver the mails into the post offices at the ends
| than eighty rods from the railroad or landing.
| N. X. HALL, Postuaster General.
| Posr OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Jan. 10Th, 1851 u
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