The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-09-16

PROPOSALS :or carrying the mails of the Uni
L ted States in steamboats, from the 18th day oil
November next to the fret 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, un-
til q. m: of the 18th of September next, to be de-
cided by the following day:
No. 57ll: From Vicksburg, by Warrenton,
Grand Gulf, St. Joseph's, Rodney, Water Proof,
Natchez, Fort Adams, Red River Landing, st.
Store, Baton Rouge, Brulee Landing. Manchac,
Plaquemine, Iberville, Bayou Goula, New River,
Donadsonvie, Tureaud, Convent, Bonnet Care,
Orleans, 374 miles, six times week, and back,
from lst October to LIST July, and weekly resi-
due of year
Leave Vicksburg daily, except Wednesday, at
Arrive at New Orleans in so hours by p. m.
Leave New Orleans daily, except Sunday, at
p. m.
Proposals to omit, during the period Of six times
week service, the Sunday trip going down, and
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 to be con-
trips not performed, and fines imposed for those
not run agreeably to contract The Postmaster
General may annul the contract for repeated
failures, 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 SER
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 a mile of the river
during the contract term. The bids should be
guaranteed by one or more RESPONSIBLE individu-
ais, and the suticiency of the guaranty duly
certified. They should be addressed to the Second
| Assfa POstmaater General. endorsed
Proposals for route SILL" The contracts are to
be executed by the 18th day Of November next
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,.
The Department reserves to itself the right to
decline to accept any of the proposals, If the COM
pensation proposed is deemed too high; to defer
a decision thereon until the bids may be submitted
to Congress for direction; the final decision on
such bids to be made, in the latter Gaze, by the
18th of March next, and the service to commence,
if required. on the first day of July thereafter,
The contracts in that case to be executed by the
first of June next.
Form ola Guaranty.
"The undersigned - guaranty that, II the
bid Of - for carrying the mail on route 5,7ll
they, the case may be3 shall enter into the
tract required by the Postmaster General prior to
the 18th day Of November next, with at least two
good and sufficient sureties.'
Form Of Certificate.
"The undersigned, Postmaster of -, certi
es 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." (Signed.)
4 modification of bid in any of its essentia
terms is tantamount to n new bid, and cannot b.
| received, SO as to interfere with the regular com
petition, after the last hour for receiving bids
N. X. HALL, Postmaster General.
Posr OFFICE DEpA RrMENr, July %, 1852.