The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-13
PROPOSALS

back, three times q month, in steamships Time
allowed from port to port to be three days; the
schedule tsuSjec. to approval Of the Postmaster
Proposals to omit Tampico by main line, and
supply, tri monthly, by side vessel in due con-
nexon will be considered in the event of its being
shown to be impracticable to enter that port with
The proposals. should set forth the size, rate, and
description OF the vessel, (which must be Of not
less than eight hundred tons burden,) with sufi-
cient particularity to enable the decision to be
made on the advice Of the proper ofiicers of the
naval service, whether the same 10 or 10 not con.
vertible into ship Of war. And special notice is
hereby given that, agreeab!y to the provisions Of
the act Of Congress Of Sd March, Is46, those pro-
Posals (being acceptable in other respects) will be
preferred which shall stipulate to deliver the
steamship or ships, to be provided for carrying
said mails, to the United States, to their proper
officer. on demand made for the purpose Of being
United States being bound, on their part, to pay
the fair full value thereof at the time Of delivery,
to be ascertained by four appraisers, appointed,
two BY the President OF the United States, and two
by the owner or owners, with an umpire, in case
of disagreement, to be appointed by the President
of the United States.
The laws this subject are the 7th section of the
act of March l645, and the Sd section of the act
of June 81, lS4S, to which bidders are referred.
The bidder may embrace in bis offer stipulation
to carry an agent of the Post Office Department
with the mails or he may omit it, at his discretion
given in favor ola bid equal in other respects over
bid not containing 1t.
BY the second section of the act of March 3, 1885,
1t is required that contracts for the conveyance of
the mail froIn 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 &c.
FIRST day Of January, 1883 The contract is to pro.
vide, among other things, that the pay of the trip
is to be forfeited when the trip Is not performed,
and not more than three times the pay of the trip
for the failure is furnished, and a due proportion
Of it when grade of service is rendered inferior to
that specified in the contract; and that fines may
be imposed, unless the delinquency be satisfactory
ly explained in due time: for failing to take from,
or to deliver into, the post Office at the port of land
ing the mail belonging thereto, any part of said
mai for suffering the mail, any part of it, to be
wet injured, lost or destroyed; for conveying it in
loss, or injury; for refusing, after demand made,
to convey 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; also for
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.
partment; for refusing to discharge 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 o pro rata in
crease of compensation, within the restrictions i'm
posed by law for any increased service required;
the contract, on timely notice. II he prefer it to the
change The Postmaster General may also dis :
continue curtail the service, he allowing one
months extra pay on the amount dispensed with.
q he
der's name and residence, and the name Of each
member Of the firm where a company offers, should
be distinctly stated in the proposals.
Form for Bid where no change from ADDER
tisement is contemplated by the bidder.
"I (or we, as the case may boy There write the
name or names in FULL Of There state the residence
or residenees hereby propose to carry the mail on
as the Postmaster Generals advertisement for pro.
posals on the same, dated September 30, 1852, re.
qures, in the time stated in the schedule contained
in such advertisement, and by the following mode
conveyed,] for the annual cum of there write out
the sum in words at full length
Dated [Signed1
The following is the form of the guaranty, which
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,
after being dated, should be signed by the guaran.
OF postmaster, or other equally satisfactory tcsi-
monial, to be men Of property, and able to make
good their guaranty. This guaranty, 90 certified,
should accompany each bid
"The undersigned - guaranty that
If his bid for carrying the mail from - to
be accepted by the Postmaster General,
shall enter into the contract required by the Post
master General, pursuant to such bid, prior to the
LIST day of January next, with at least two good
aud sufficient sureties to perform the service pro-
posed"
Dated [Signed1
Form Of Certificate.
"The undersigned, Postmaster of - ertiies
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 [signed]
The bid should be sent under seal to the Second
Assistant Postmaster General, and the words "Mail
Proposals-Foreign Mails'' written on the face of
the letter; and should be dispatched in time to be
received by or before the 18th day Of November
next, which will be the last day for receiving pro.
posas under this advertisement.
The acceptance non acceptance of the bids
will be determined by the 18th day of November
next.
The service is TO commence with the trip near
est to the first day Of January, 1885, but II the bid
der shall not consider himself able or prepared to
put the service in operation on about that day,
he will specify the day of commencement in bis
proposals. The contract term will expire with the
voyage ending on or about the 3Oth day of Dccem-
Der, 1857.
s. D. HUBBARD, Postmaster General.
Posr OFrIoE DEPARTMENT, Sept. 80, 1852.
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FURTHER CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.
CINCE THE NOTICE from this office of the 10th
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