The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-03-31

II, 1913 Preceded, That no Register Receiver
shall receive any compensa out oil the treasury
for past services who has charged and received lie
gal fees for the location Of such warrants Ana
provided, further, That no Register or Receiver
shall receive for his services during any year
greater compensation than the maximum now al
lowed by law"
Where parties may desire to avail themselves OF
the privilege OF having their warrants located
through this office. as provided for by the act OF
2Sth September. 1850, they must take the neces-
sary steps to pay to the Register and Receiver the
fees to which they are entitled, The same course
must be observed by persons remote from the DIS
trict Land Offices in making applications by letter
to those officers Without the payment OF those
fees the warrants cannot be located.
BY the terms OF this law the fees are as follows:
For a 40 acre warrant, fifty cents each to Regis
ter and Receiver-tOtal 81.
For So acre warrant, one dollar each to Regis
ter and Receiver-tOial 50.
For a l60 acre warrant, two dollars each to Be
Z '''e w J. BUTTERFIELD.
Mar 25-2aw3w Commissioner.
PROPOSALS for carrying the mails of the Uni
L ted States on the following route, from the Let
be received at the Contract Office Of the Post Office
Department, in the city Of Washington, until y
a. IN. of the l4th day of May, 1852, to be decided
by the next day:
lO,l5s. From Columbus. by South Bloomfield,
Circlevlle, Chillicothe, Waller, Waverley, Pike
ton, and Lucasville, to Portsmouth, 81 miles and
back, daily.
Summer Schedule from Aprl TO October l.
Leave Columbus daily at a. M arrive at Ports
mouth same day by 9p M.
Leave Portsmouth daily at q. m, arrive at 20
lumbus same day by p. m.
Winier Schedule: from October to March 81.
Leave Columbus daily at q. m, arrive at Ports
mouth same day by IL p. IN.
Leave Portsmouth daily at a. m, arrive Mt Co
lumbus same day by IL p. M
NOTES.
Bidders should state the mode of conveyance in.
tended. The mail is to be carried in preference to
passen gers and to their exclusion, il required by
the size of the mails. Mail agents are to be con
veyed without charge, if the service be let to coach
or sta &c conveyance. Deduction will be made from
the mail pay for trips not run; and fines imposed
for those not performed agreeably to the contract
in all particulars. The Postmaster General may
annu the contract for repeated failures, for VIC
ating the Post Office laws. He may alter the con
tract schedule, provided he allows pro rata extru
pay for additional stock made necessary by the
change; and one months extra pay, in cases Of
curtailment, for the service dispensed with. NJ
extra pay will be allowed for of actual over
advertised distance, should the distance above de-
signated prove to be short stated. The proposals.
should be addressed to the Second Assistant Post.
master General, endorsed "Mal Proposals in the
State Of Ohio" and be accompanied with qua
ranty of one more responsible persons; also
by certificate of one more postInasters, setting
forth that the guarantors are able to make good
their guaranty. For form of bid and full instruc
tons see the late advertisement for Ohio route.
N. X. HALL,
Postmaster General
Posr OFFICE DEPARTMENT, March %, 1852.
Mar 25-law4w