The republic., 1851-12-20


time as to lose He connexion with depending mail and foE
teture ola due proportion when grade Of render
ed inferior t. that in the contract These foetures may be
creased into penalties Of higher amount according the nature
frequency Of the failures and the Importance Of the mall
3. Whenever is satisfactorily shown that the contractors
their carrier agent, has left put aside the mall any
PARTON oft for the accommodation Of passengers they shall
forfeit not exceeding quarters pay,
g. Fines will be imposed unless the delinquency be salts
factory explained in due time, Cor failing take from or
deliver at post Office, the mail, any part Of it for sEe
ing il to be wet injured lost, destroyed for conveying
in place that exposes depreciation loss, or
injury for refusing after demand to convey mail by any
coach, railroad car steamboat which the contractor regu
ay concerned in running the route beyond the
specified number of trips the contract and for not arriving
at the time and for setting up running express to
transmit commercial intelligence in advance of the mail
penalty viii be exacted equal TO quarters pay.
T. The Postmaster General may annul the contract for re-
peated failures for voleng 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
Gene a for setting np running express aforesaid
or for transporting persons conveying mail matter out OF the
mail
g. The Postmaster General ay alter the contract and er
the schedule, he allowing pro rata increase of compensatory
within the restrictions imposed by law the additional
vice required, for the increased speed the employment of
additional stock carriers is rendered necessary but the
contractor may, che o. increased expedition
the contract timely notice, if he prefers to the change
The Postmaster General may annu the contract discontinue
cura the service when he wishes dispense with
tho whole In part or to place higher different
grade of service the route whenever the public interests
require such dcontnuance curlamen for any other cause
he allowing months extra pay the amount Of service
dispensed with.
g. The payments will be made through drafts pest offices
otherwise after the expiration of each quarersay in Feb
Euary, MAY, August, and November.
TO- The distances given according the best nfona
ton but increased will be allowed should they prove
be greater thanis advertised.
H. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law from
knowingly making contract for the transportation of the mail
with any person who shall have entered into any combination
proposed to enter into any combinaton to prevent the
making any bid for mail contract by any other person
peons who shall have made any agreement shall have
given performed, promised to give perform, any
deIaon TO do not TO do, thing whatever to induce
any other person bid for mail contract Particular
tenton called the 2Sth section of the act of 1885, proh
biting combinations to prevent bidding.
L. bid received after time, wit, the 5h February, 1852,
next m without the guaranty required by law or that
combines several compensation cannot be
considered in competition with regular proposal adudged
to be exravagant.
49, bidder may oer where the transportation called for
in the advertisement is difficult impracrabe certain
sons substitute inferior mode Of conveyance, in
tern service specified number of days. weeks months
He may propose to omit office that lis inaccessible, snot
the stage road the railway, at STEAMBOAT anding,
the may be he may offer to substitute inferior
mode of supply in such He may propose different
days and hours of departure and arrival provided
running time is asked and it is obvious that mail
ion other public accommodation is Pejudced He may
ask for running time to the trip, dung 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 aside for exavagance and
where bid contains of the above attentions their dsad
vanages will be estimated in comparing with ether proposals
IA. There should be but route bid for in proposal
Is. The route the service, the yearly pay, the bidders
name and residence and the name of each member of the
firm, where company offers, should be distinctly stated
I II
back is intended.
I6. The bid should be under SEAL addressed the
First Assistant Postmaster General with Mail Proposals
in the State of -" written the face of the letter
and should be dispatched in time be received by before
the 5th February next, at 10 o'clock A. M 1t should
be guaranteed and the sucency of the guarantors should
be duly certified (See forms
IT. The be executed by before the of
July
IS. Posmasters Offices situated upon or railroads.
but more than eighty rods from depot will Immediately af
ter the 5h February next report hs fact to the Department
stating their distance from the railroad DEPOT and how
otherwise supplied with the mall enable the Postmaster
General to direct the proper supply to be made from the rail-
road by mail messengers from and after the lst July
49, Under the act of March g. lS45 the route be let
to the lowest bidder rendering sufficient guarantees for faith
u performance without other reference to the mode of
poraton than be necessary provide for the due ceey
certainty and security of such transportation.
When the lowest bid proposes aspecc mode of conveyance
that is inadequate for the route respect to the certainty
cuy, and celebrity of the mails aside from any nccomoda
ton 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 be for the lowest mode of
conveyance, wit horseback. When it proposes to
according to the advertisement and mode of convey
stated for the route in the advertisement it will be
considered offering only for horseback conveyance
81 Since the passage OF the act of March 3, ls45,
description of bid has been received specifies mode Of
conveyance but engages carry the mail with certainty
lerty and security using the terms Of the law These bids
called, from the in which they designated on
Department
of the Department enables lay down the following rules
When the mail the is large to require
twoborse coach conveyance, bid the lowest, will al
ways be preferred to the specific bid.
When the mails Of such and weight as TO render it
necessary in reference to them aone provide twohose
coach conveyance the specific bid though the highest for
coach service, if adudgcd be entirely sufficient for the
route, will be preferred to the bid the difference
not such interfere with the policy of the law of 1885,
which looks reduction in the of transportation Ex
ceptons however, may be allowed where the bid is made
by the of the stock used on the route in the per
iormance Of coach service.
On routes Of the highest Glass; where four-horse coach
searnboa; transportation required by the size and import
of the mails, and the specific bid adudged entirely
sufficient for the route the preference for the specific bid will
be, necessary carried to greater extent Of difference than
on the inferior coach routes.
22 modification of bid, in any Of its essential terms
anamount to bid and be received, to in
erere with regular competition after the last hour set for re-
oeiFing bids.
49, Postmasters required he careful and not to GER
y the sufciency Of suretes without knowing
that they persons of sufficient responsibility and oil bid
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