The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-12-29
INSTRUCTIONS,

INSTRUCTIONS,
Embracing conditions to be incorporated In the con,
tracts 10 The extent The Department may deem proper
l. Seven minutes allowed each intermediate office
when not otherwise specified for asserting the ms but
railroad and steamboat routes there is be delay
than is sufficient for exchange of the mail bags
g On routes where the mode Of conveyance admits of il
the special agents Of the Department also post office blanks,
mail bags locks and keys, to be conveyed without
charge. ....'
g. On railroad aud steamboat lines, British and Canada
mails when offered, be conveyed without addiiona
pay also the route agents of the Department. for whose
elusive while travelling with the mails commodous ar,
apartment in the centre of properly lighted, warmed
and furnished and adapted the mebt and
due security of the is to be provided by the contractor,
under the direction of the Department.
A. No pay will be made for trips not performed and for
each of such omissions not satisfactorily explained three times
the pay of the trip may be deducted For arrivals far be-
hind time break connexion with depending mails, and
not sufficiently excused, onefoth of the compensation for
the trip subject forfeiture. Deduction may also be
dered for grade of performance inferior to that specified in
the contract For repeated delnquences OF the kind herein
specified enlarged penalties ropotioned to the nature there
Of and the importance of the mail, may be made.
S. For leaving behind, throwing of the mails, any
portion of them for the admission of passengers for being
concerned in setting up running express conveying
commercial intelligence ahead of mail, quarters pay
6. Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquency be prompt
Iy and satisfactorily explained by certificates of postmasters
the adaviss of other credtabe persons, for failing
rive in contract time for neglecng to take the mail from,
deliver it into, post Office for suffering it, lowing either to
the unsuabeness of the place of carrying be
injured destroyed robbed lost and for refusing, after de-
mand, to convey the mail frequently the contractor
runs is concerned in running COACH steamboat
a route.
T. The Postmaster General may annu the contract for re-
peaed failures to agreelby to contract for dsobeyng
the post Office laws, the instructions of the Department
for refusing to discharge carrier when required by the De-
do
of the Postmaster General for running express
aforesaid or for transporting persons or packages conveying
mailabe matter out OF the mail. $50.
The Postmaster General may order increase service
route by allowing therefor pro rata increase the
contract pay He may also order increase of speed he
allowing, within the restrictions of the law, pro in
of pay for the additional stock carriers if any,
The contractor may, however, in the of increase of speed
enquish the contract by giving prompt notice to the Depart
ment that he prefers doing carrying the order into effect
The Postmaster General may also curta discontinue the
service, at pro rata decrease of pay he allow months
compensation the dispensed WITH whenever
his opinion, the public interests do require the same
or in in case he desires to suPsede different grade of
taUspor tation.
Payments will be made for the service through drafts on
posmasers otherwise, after the expiration of each quarter
say in February, May, August and November.
TO- The distances given according to the best norma.
ton but increased pay will be allowed should they great
er than advertised if the nts to be supplied be correctly
stated
IL. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law from
knowingly making for the transportation of the mails
with any person who shall have entered into, proposed
enter nto combination to prevent the making Of any bid
for mail contract by any other person PERSONS who
shall have made any agreement shall have given
formed, or promised to give perform, any consideration
whatever, or to do, not to do any thing whatever in
order TO induce any other person persons not to bid for
mail contract Particular attention is called to the 2sth
ton of the act of 1886, prohibiting combinations to prevent
bidding.
IL. bid received after time viz the 4th of April 1853
at ga M without the guaranty required by law, that
combines several routes of compensation, be
considered in competition with regular proposal reasonable
in amount. ~
49, bidder may offer, where the transportation called fo
by the advertisement is difficult mpractcabe certain
to substitute inferior mode OF conveyance to
tern service specified number of days. weeks months
He may propose to omit inaccessible Office, or moi
the stage railroad, at steamboat landing,
the may be he may offer to substitute an inferior
mode OF supply in such He may propose different
times of arrival and departure, provided
ming time is asked, and mail connexon preudced He
may ask additional running time for the trip during sPec
fed number Of days. in seasons of very bad roads; bu
beyond these changes, proposal for service differing from
that called for by the advertisement will not be considered il
competition with regular bid reasonable in amount
Where bid contains any such alterations their disadvana
ges will be estimated in comparing with ether proposals.
IA. There should be but route bid for proposal.
Is. The route the service, the yearly pay, the nam
and residence Of the bidder and those of each member Of
rm where company offers, should be distinctly stated
also tue mode OF conveyance nigher mode hah morse
back be intended.
l6. The bid should be under SEAL addressed to TIL
Second Assistant Postmaster General superscribed " Mai
Proposals in the State of -. should DO guaranteed
and the sufcency of the guarantors certified, see FORMS
and should be dispatched in time to be received by beor
9 A. M of the 4th April, 1853.
II The be executed and returned to tn
Department by before the LIST Of July 1853.
| ls. Posmasters at Offices near railroads, bu
than eighty rods from depot will Immediately at
ter the 4h April next report their distance from depot
and how they otherwise supplied with the mail, to
able the Postmaster General to direct mail messenger sup
ply from the LIST July next. ..,
10. Under the of March s45 the routes to be lie
the lowest bidders rendering sufficient guarantees, whou
reference the mode of transportation than may be
cessary for the due celebrity, certainty, and security Of suc
transportation When the lowest bid proposes mode Of
vcyance inadequate the due celebrity, certainty and
| rity of the mails, it will not be accepted.
20. When the bid does not specify mode of conveyance
also when proposes carry according the advertisement
bu, without such specification, it will be considered
proposal for horseback service. ....
81 Since the passage Of the act of March 3, 1885,
description Of bid has been received. II does specify
mode Of conveyance but engages to take the entire mail
trip with celebrity, certainty and security, using the terms
the law These bids styled, from the in whc
they designated the books of the Department. "sta