The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-09-17

PROPOSALS .or carrying tho mails of the Uni
Il ted States in steamboats, from the 18th day Of
November next to the first day Of July, 1854, on
the following route in Mississippi and Louisiana
will be received at the Contract Office of the Post
Office Department, in the city of Washington. IN.
til a. m. of the 18th of September next, to be de-
cided by the following day: ...f D.. ,..- .'.. \
No GIL. From Vicksburg, by Warrenton,
Grand G uIf, St. Joseph's, Rodney, Water Proof,
Natchez, Fort Adams, Red River Landing, ~.
Francisyille, Waterloo; Port Hudson. Loodslps
Plaquemine, Ibcrville. Bayou Goula, New River,
Donaldsonvile, Tureaud, Convent, Bonnet Care,
Edgar, Taylor, and Logan's Landing, to New
Orleans, 374 miles, six times a week, and back,
from LIST October to lst July, and tri weekly resi-
due of year ....;,
Leave vicksburg daily; except Wednesday, at
4p.m. t.2. ia. .. ya...s. ..r "
Arrive at New Orleans in so hours BY Up. m.
Leave New Orleans daily. except Sunday, at S.
p. m. .aTe l.. ~ a.. ..s.&a. ..N.sl&. h.i..
Arrive at vicksburg in SO hours by p. m.
Proposals to omit, during the period of six times
the Wednesday one returning, will be considered.
| NOTES.
The contracts are to be executed by the first of
September next. Should the Department appoint
travelling agents for the route, they are to be con-
veyed free of charge. Deduction will be made for
| trips not performed, and fines imposed for those
not run agreeably to contract. The Postmaster
| General may annul the contract for repeated
failures, or for violating the Post Office laws. He
may alter the contract or schedule, provided he
allows pro rata extra pay for additional stock
made necessary by the change, and one months
extra pay on all curtailments ordered in the
vice. No extra pay will be made should the
| distance be greater than advertised. The mails
are to be taken into and from the Post Offices
named; also, to and from any offices that may be
established within quarter Of mile Of the river
during the contract term. The bids should be
ais, and the sutficiency of the guaranty duly
certified. They should be addressed to the Second
Assistant Postmaster General, endorsed email
Proposals for route 5,7ll." The contracts are to
and will be in the form Except in the respects
herein particularly mentioned) usually required
in this Department when the service is performed
| in steamboats,.
decline to accept any of the proposals, if the
pcnsaton proposed is deemed too high; or to defer
decision thereon until the bids may be submitted
to Congress for direction; the final decision on
| such bids to be made. in the latter case, by the
| 18th of March NEXT, aud the service to commence
| if required. the first day of July thereafter,
The contracts in that case to be executed by the
fret of June next.
| Form ola Guaranty.
| 1.-THE undersigned - guaranty that, II the
| bid Of for carrying the mail on route 5,7ll
be accepted by the Postmaster General, he Tor
they, the case may beg shall enter into the con-
tract required by the Postmaster General prior to
the 18th day Of November next, with at least two
good and sufficient sureties."
Dated -. (Signed.)
| . Form Of Certificate.
"The undersigned, Postmaster of -, certi-
hes that he is well acquainted with the guarantors
above named, and their property, and that they
are sufficient and able to make good their guar
anty." (Signed.)
| Dated d..
A modification Of bid in any of it's cssenta
terms is tantamount to a new bid, and cannot be
received, go as to interfere with the regular COM
petition, after the last hour for receiving bids.
| N. X. HALL, Postmaster General.
| Posr OFFICE DErARTMENT, July %, 1852.
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