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Department m executing II, is to obtain regular
and reliable lines of mail packets on, this impor-
tant thoroughfare, arriving and departing at fixed
times at the principal points all the year round
and that strict compliance with the contract oh
legations will be demanded. s
Tie whole number of boats required for the
service accepted TO each contractor. must be pro
vided before the contract will be considered ae
commenced; and they will be subject I'd The In
spection of an agent or agents, appointed BY the
Department. who viii certify to each by name that
they are of sufficient 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service can be withdrawn without the assent Of
the Department, and any new boat pro posed to be
employed will be subject to like inspection and
acceptance. sA 1919 = n stStHa
provisions of law the subject of their liabilities
to the 9th section of the ssAct to change The or
ganzation of the Post Office Department. APP
proved July 3, 1886. . ao1s9a&
1t Is desirable that the service go into operation
on the LIST July, 1858. but the commencement may
be postponed until the lst October succceng, if il
be absolutely necessary and is request q In any
event the contractwill expire on the Both June,
1857. f4e.i.f N 4 s5E& ghHi s 4
Articles of contract are to be executed by the
cepted bidder and by his sureies, by before the
first day of July, 1853. The contract is to provide
among other things, that the pay of the trip is to
be forfeited when the trip is not perfor,ne', and
not than three times the pay Of the trip when
the trip is not run, and no sufficient excuse for the
failure is furnished, and due proportion of
when grade Of service ia rendered inferior to
that specified in the contract; and that fms may
be imposed, unless the delinquency be satisfacto-
rily explained III due time; for failing to- take
from, 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, any
part of it,, to be wet injured, lost, or destroyed
for conveying 1t in place OF 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
set also Tor transmitting intelligence, furnish
ing the of transmitting Intelligence, in adj
vance of the mail. The Postmaster General may
annul the contract for repeated failures for VIC.
lating 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 assgningthe contract without the con-
sent Of the Postmaster General. or for setting up
or running an express as aforesaid. . =, !
The Postmaster General may alter the contract
and alter the schedule, he allowing pro rata in
crease of compensation, within the restrictions
imposed by law for any inc reased service required
The Postmaster General may also discontinue OF
curtail the service, he allowing one months extra
pay ON the amount dispensed with. X. y.G s. Z
The route, the service, the yearly pay, the bid
der's name and res, dence, and the name of each
member Of the firm where a company offers,
should be distinctly stated in the proposals.
o. Form. Of a Bid. Z is
/, Cor we,) -, of -, propose to carry the
mails on route No. -, from - to go, agree
ably to the advertisement of the Postmaster Gene.
raj, dated 3lst December 1852, and by the follow.
ing mode of conveyance, viz :,ons {'rysyF
4 - for the annual sum Of - dollars. sss,
Dated Signed. (
"a Form Of q Guaranty = ~ J |
The undersigned undertake that II the foregoing
bid for carrying the mail ON route No. $3.50 be acI
+cepted by the Postmaster General, the bidder
sha prior TO the Let day of jolly, 1858, enter into
the required obligation to perform the service pro
posed, with good and sufficient sureties.
Dated. (Signed by two guarantors.) I
Form of a Certificate.
. The undersigned, postmaster of ----, certifes
that he iswell acquainted with the above guaran.
tors and their property, and that they men of
property, and able to make good their guaranty.
Dated. Signed.
3 Proposals should be addressed, sealed, to the
Second Assistant Postmaster General, and it is
particularly important thatthey be marked on the
face of the letter proposals, River Mails aai
. --,---- S. D. HUBBARD
cry -ala s+ssf.. Postmaster General
Posi- OFFICE DErARTMEAT, Dec. 81, 1852. q