The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-15


shown to be impracticable to enter that port with
the steamships Of the line.
The proposals. shoud set forth the size, rate, and
description Of the vessel. (Which must be of not
less than eight hundred tons burden with sutti
| cient particularly to enable the decision to be
| made on the advice Of the proper officers Of the
| naval service. whether the same is or is not con
vertibie into ship OF war. And special notice 10
hereby given, that agreeably to the provisions OF
the act of Congress of Sd March, lS45, those pro-
posals (bsng acceptablein other respecis) will be
preferred which shall stipulate to deliver the
| steamship or ships, to be provided for carrying
said mails to the United States or to their proper
officer, on demand made, for the purpose of being
converted into a vessel vessels of war; the
United States being bound, ON their part to pay
the fair full value thereof at the time Of deli cry
| to be ascertaned by four appraisers, appointed,
two by the President Of the United States and two
by the owner or owners, with umpire, in case
Of disagreement, to be appointed BY the President
The laws on this subject are the 7h section of the
act of March B. lS45 and the Sd section of the act
ofJune 81. ls4s, to which bidders are referred.
to carry an agent of the Post Office Department
with the mails, or he may omit it, at his discretion.
Such stipulation may induce a preference to be
given in favor ola bid equal in other respects
By the second section of the act of March 3, ls45
it is required that contracts for the conveyance of
the mail from the United States to foreign ports
shall be made with American citizens and the mail
transported in American vessels by American
citizens.
Articles of contract are to be executed by the ac
cepted bidder and by his suretes, by before the
first day of January, 1853. The contract 10 to pro
vide among other things. that the pay of the trip
lie to be forfeited when the trip is not performed,
and not more than three times the pay of the trip
when the trip Is not run, and no sufficient excuse
for the failure is furnished, and due proportion
of it when grade of service is rendered inferior to
that specified in the contract; and tina. fines may
be imposed unless the Delinquency be satisfactori
to deliver into, the post office the port of land
ing the mail belonging thereto, or any part of said
mai for suffering the mail any part of it, to be
wet, injured, lost, or destroyed for conyeying it in
place or manner that exposes it to depreciation,
loss, or injury; for refusing, after demand made,
to convey a mail by any additional steamship or
vessel run by the contractor on the route, and
above the specified number of trips in the contract,
and for not arriving at the time set; aso for trans
hitting intelligence, or furnishing the means OF
transmitting intelligence, in advance of the mail.
The Postmaster General may annul the contract
for repeated failures; for violating the post Office
laws; for disobeying the instructions of the De.
partmen; for refusing to discharge a carrier when
required by the Department; for assigning the con-
tract without the consent of the Postmaster General
or for setting up or running an express as afore-
said.
The Postmaster General may alter the contract,
and alter the schedule, he allowing a pro rata in
crease of compensation, within the restrictions i'm
posed BY law for any increased service required;
but the contractor may, in such case, relinqush
the contract, timely notice. If he prefer 1t to the
change. The Postmaster General may also dis.
continue or curtail the service, ne allowing one
months extra pay on the amount dispensed with
The route, the service, the yearly pay, the bid
der's name and residence, and the name Of each
member of the firm where company offers. should
be distinctly stated in the proposals.
Form for Bid where no change from ADDER
tisement is contemplated by the bidder.
al Tor we, as the case may beg there write the
name or names in FULL Of there state the residence
the route from New Orleans to Vera Cruz often
as the Postmaster Generals advertisement for pro
posals on the same, dated September 80, 1852, re-
quires in the time stated in the schedule contained
in such advertisement, and by the following mode
of conveyance, to wit: Here state how it is to be
conveyed,] for the annual sum of there write out
the sum in words at full length
Dated (Signed]
should be filled, the first blank with the name Of
the guarantors; the second with the name Of the
bidder; and the third and fourth with the Begin
ming and terminating points of the route; and,
tor, who must be shown, by the written certificate
ola postmaster or other equally satisfactory testi
monial, to be men of property, and able to make
each 80
The undersigned - guaranty that -,
if hs bid for carrying the mail from - to
be accepted by the Postmaster General,
sudH euter INC CoHtTaCt required w the fOet-
master General, pursuant to such bid. prior TO the
lst day of January next, with at least two good
and sufficient suretes to perform the service pro-
posed"
Dated [Signedl
Form Of Certificate.
"The undersigned, Postmaster of -, certiies
that he is we'll acquainted with the guarantors
above named, and their property, and that they
are sufficient and able to make good their guar
anty."
Dated fSignedl 3
The bid should be sent under seal to the Second
Assistant Pos master eral, and the words Mail
oposas-Foreign Mails' written the face Of
received by or before the 18th day Of November
next, which will be the last day for receiving pro
posals under this advertisement.
The acceptance or nom acceptance OF the bids
will be determined by the 18th day of November
next.
The service is to commence with the trip near
es0to the first day Of January 1853; but If the bid
der shall not consder himself able prepared TO
put the service in operation on about that day,
proposals. The contract term will expire with the
voyage ending on or about the aOth day of Deccm.
Der, 1857.
8. D. HUBBARD, PostmasteseG eneral.
PosT OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Sept. 30, 1852.
Oct l-eo4w
FURTHER CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.
OUNCE THE NOTICE from this office of the 10th
~ January last, which appeared in the newspa-
ceiving certain drafts purporting to be those of
Captain l.. c. Easton, Assistant Quartermaster,
recently stationed at Santa F6, New Mexico,
third forged draft OH the Qunrtermaster General