The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-03-08
Incorporated in the contracts.

Embracing certain conditions, sChich scin b.
incorporated in the contracts.
l. Seven minutes allowed for opening add closing Tho
mails at all Offices where no particular time specified but
railroad and steamboat routes there Is to be delay
than is necessary to deliver and receive the bags.
The mail to be conveyed in preference to passengers,
and entire exclusion If its weight aud bulk require IT,
g. Post office blanks mail bags and the special agents Of
the Department the exhibition of their credentials to
be conveyed without further charge, mail lines admitting
Of such conveyance
principal railroad and steamboat lines, whore the size of the
mails and the number of the Offices will require their employ
by the Department and that case, separate apart
ment for the exclusive Of the Department and agent for
the asserting and Of the mail Is to be provided BY
the contractor, under the direction of the Department
g. In all there to be forfeiture of the pay Of the
trip when the trip not and Of than threc
times the of the trip when the trip not and no SUI
6cent for the failure furnished forfeiture of at least
oneourth part when the running arrival behind
time lose the connexion with depending mail and for
feitue proportion when grade Of service render
cd inferior to that in the contract These foees may be
creased into penalties amount according to the nature
frequency Of the failure and the importance Of the mail
g. Fines will be imposed unless the delinquency be atis
facoriy explained in due time for failing to take FROM
deliver post Office, the mail any part Of it, for suffer-
ing to be wet injured, lost destToyed conveying
in place that exposes il 70 dspredaton loss,
injury for refusing after demand to convey mail by any
coach, railroad steamboat which the contractor regu
ry the route beyond the specified number Of trips n
the contract and for not arriving at the time and for
seng running express to transmit commercial in
telgence in advance Of the mail, penalty will be exacted
equal to quarters pay.
T. The Postmaster General may annul the contract for
peatsd failures for violating the post Office laws; for dis
obeyng 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 up running express aforesaid
The Postmaster General alter the contract and alter
the schedule, he allowing pro rata increase Of compensation
within the restrictions imposed by law, for the additional
vice required for the increased speed if the empoymentof
additional stock carriers is rendered necessary but the
contractor may in such Case renqush the contract timely
notice. be prefers the change The Postmaster Gene
raj may annu the contract cura the service and pay when
he wishes dispense with the service, in whole in part
place higher different grade of service on 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 quarersay in Feb
ruary, May, August, and November.
TO- The distances gvon according to the best informa
tom no increased pay will allowed prove
be greater than advertised if the correctly named
IL. 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 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 or perform, any con-
sderaon do, do, any thing whatever induce
any other person bid for mail contract. Particular at
enon called the 2Sh section of the act of 1885, proh
biting combinations TO prevent bidding.
H. bid received after time, to wit, the LIST April next at
10 without the guaranty required by law, that
bnes several routes of compensation cannot be
considered in competition with the regular proposal not adj
Judged to be extravagant.
49, bidder may offer, where the transportation called for
in the advertisement difficult impraccabe at certain
sons substitute inferior mode of conveyance in
enit service specified number of days, weeks, months
He may propose omit Office that inaccessible isno
the stage road the railway, at steamboat landing,
tho 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 preudced. He may
ask for running time to 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 in compc
ton with regular bid set aside for extravaganza and
where bid contains any Of the above alterations their dsad
vanages will be estimated in comparing with other proposals.
H. There should be but route 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 be distinctly stated;
also the mode Of conveyance if higher mode than horse
back is intended.
6 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
lete and should be dispatched in time to be received by
before the LIST April next at 10 o'clock A. M 1t should
be guaranteed, and the sucency Of the guaanors should
be duly certified (See forms
H. The contracts are to be executed by or before the Of
July next.
ls Posmasters Offices situated upon railroads,
but than eighty rods from depot will Immediately af
stating their distance from the railroad depot and how
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 the LIST July next
49, Under the of March 8, ls45 the to be lot
the lowest bidder rendering sufficient guarantees for faith
full performance without other reference to the mode of trans
portaon than 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 route respect the certainty security
and celebrity of the nails 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 be for the lowest mode of
conveyance, wit 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.
81. Since the passage Of the of March 3, ls45
description of bid has been received specifics mode of
conveyance, but engages carry the mail with certainly
leiy, and security using the 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-
cc mode of conveyance of high grade coach
preferred the bid The expert
the Department enables it lay down the following
rules, viz
When the mail tho route is 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
der necessary expeden in reference to them Alone
provide wohorse coach conveyance the specific bid though
the highest will be preferred to the star bid to the Of
moderate difference in the compensation, the differ
such interfere with the policy of the law,