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DROPOsALs !or carrying the mails Of the Uni
ID ted States in steamhoata from the 18th daY O {

| DROPosALs !or carrying the mails Of the Uni,
L ted States in steamboats, from the 18th day Of
the following route in Mississippi and Louisiana.
will be received at the Contract Office Of the Post
Office Department, in the city of Washington. I'M
til a. m Of the 18th of September next, to be de-
cided by the following day:
No. ell. From Veksburg. by Warrenton.
Grand Gulf st. Josephis, Rodney, Water Proof,
Natchez, Fort Adams, Red River Landing, 81.
Store, Baton Rouge, Brulee Landing, Manchac,
Plaquemne, Iberville. Bayou Goula, New River.
Donaldsonville, Tureaud. Convent, Bonnet Care,
81. me sns and bsek
from lst October To- lst July, and ri-weekiy resi-
due of year. :
Leave Vicksburs daily, except Wednesday. at
Arrive at New Orleans In so hours by pm.
Leave New Orleans daily, except Sunday. at s
Arrive at vicksburg in so hours by 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 are TO be con-
veyed free OF charge. Deduction will be made for
trips not performed, and fines imposed for those
not run sgreeably 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
extra pay on all curtaiments ordered in the
vice. No extra pay will be- made should the
distance be greater than advertised. The malls
arc to be taken into and from the Post ounces
named: also, to and from any Offices that may be
established within a quarter Of mile OF the river,
during the contract term The bids should be
guaranteed by one or more responsible indivdu-
ais, and the suficency Of the guaranty duly
certified. They should be addressed to the Second
Assistant Postmaster General, endorsed snail
Proposals for route s, I'LL" 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 teamboats.
The Department reserves to itself the right to
decline to accept any of the proposals, II the com
pensation 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, and the service to commence,
if required. on the first day Of July thereafter,
| The contracts in that to be executed by the
first of June next.
Form efa Guaranty.
1.-THE undersigned - guaranty that, if tho
bid of ---- for carrying the mail on route SIN
| be accepted by the Postmaster General, he Cor
they, as the may beg shall enter into the con-
tract required by the Postmaster General prior to
the 9Th day of November next, with at least two
good and sufficient sureties."
Form Of Certificate.
"The undersigned, Postmaster Of --, ccrti-
fees 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 -.
modification of a bid in any Of it's essential
| terms is tantamount to a new bid, and cannot be
received 80 as to interfere with the regular COM
petition, after the last hour for receiving bids.
N. X. HALL, Postmaster General.
Posr OFFICE DsPARTMENT, July %, 1852
July 24-w4w