The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-02-08

Department in executing II, is to obtain rsgulal
and reliable lines of mail packets on this impor
tant thoronghtare, arriving and departing at hxss
and that strict compliance with the contract OBJ
legations will be demanded.
The whole number of boats required for ths
service accepted 20 each contractor. must be pro
yided before the contract will be considered a
commenced; and they win be subject to the In
spection Of an agent or agents, appointed by til,
Department, who will certify to each by name tha
they are OF sufacient size strength, quality, and
capacity, and in all respects adapted to the duty
to be performed. No boat once accepted into The
service can be withdrawn without the assent o
the Department, and any new boat proposed to be
employed will be subject to like inspection and
acceptance. a 3. ~
Bidders and guarantors are REFEREED for the
provisions of law the subject of their liabilities
to the 9th section Of the "Act to change the or
ganization of the Post Office Department. ap-
proved July 8, 1885,
on the lst July, 1858, but the commencement may
be postponed until the Let October succeeding if It
be absolutely necessary and is requested In any
event the contract will expire on the 3Oth June,
1857.
Articles of contract are to be executed BY the ac
cepted bidder and by his sureties by or before the
first day of July, 1853. The contract s to provide
among other things that the pay of the trip is to
be forfeited when the trip is not performed and
not more than three times the pay of the trip when
failure is furnished, and due proportion of it
when grade of service is rendered interior to
tina specified in the contract; and that fines NAV
De imposed, unless the delinquency be satisfacto-
rily explained in due time; for failing to take
from, or to deliver into the post Office at the port
OF landing the mail belonging thereto, or any
part of said mail for suffering the mail or anv
partof 1t, to be wet injured, lost, or DESTROYED;
TOR conveying 1t in place or manner that exposes
it to depreciation loss, or injury; for refusing, af-
ter demand made, to convey mail by any addl-
tional steamboat run by the contractor on the.
route, over and above the specified number of trips
in the contract, and for not arriving at the time
set also for transmitting intelligence, or furnish.
ing the me ans of transmitting intelligence in ad.
vance of the mail. The Postmaster General NAV
annufthe contract for repeated failures for vio-s
iatlng the post office laws; for disobeying the in
structions of the Department. for refusing to dis
charge a carrier when required by the Depart
ment; for assigning the contract without the con.
sent OF the Postmaster General, or for setting I'D
or running an express as aforesaid.
The Postmaster General may alter the contract
and alter the schedule, he allowinga pro rata in.
crease Of compensation, within the restrictions
imposed by law for any increased service required
The Postmaster General may also discontinue or
curtail the service, be allowing one months extra
pay on the amount dispensed with. d,
The route, the service, the yearly pay, the bid
der's name and residence, and the name of each
member of the firm where a company offers,
should be distinctly stated in the proposals.
Form efa Bid.
], Tor we,) 49,, of -, propose to carry the
mails on route No. -, from - to -, agree
ably to the advertisement of the Postmaster Gene
raj, dated 3lst December, 1852, and by the follow.
ing mode of conveyance, viz:
- for the annual sum of - dollars.
Dated. Signed.
Form Of a Guaranty.
The undersigned undertake that if the foregoing
bid for carrying the mail on route No. 49, Be &C.
cepted BY the Postmaster General, the bidder
SHALL prior to the lst day of july 1862 enter into
the required obligation to perform the service pro-
posed, with good and sufficient sureties.
Dated. (Signed by two guarantors.)
Form of a Certificate.
!. The undersigned, postmaster of ----, certifes
that he is well acquainted with the above guaran.
tors and their property, and that they are men of
property, and able to make good their guaranty.
Dated. 88s.s7 Signed.
Proposals should be addressed, sealed, to the
Second Assistant Postmaster General, and it is
important that they be marked on the
lace of the letter Proposals, River Mails
S. D. HUBBARD,
Postmaster General.
Posi- OFFICE DErARTMEAT, Dec. 81, 1852.
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