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Department in executing it, is to obtain regular
and reliable lines of mail packets on this impor-
times at the principal points all Ia ycar round
and that strict compliance with the contract OBJ
legations will be demanded. e ae#
The whole number of boats required for the
service accepted TO each contractor. must be pro
vided before the contract will be considered as
commenced; and they will be subject to the in
spection OF an agent or agents. appointed by tn e
Department, who will certify to each by name that
they are of sufficient size strength, quality, and
capacity, and in all respects adapted toll duty
to be performed. No boat once accepted into the
| service can be withdrawn without the assent of
the Department, and any new boat proposed to be
| employed will be subject to like inspection and
| acceptance. t 81
Bidders and guarantors are referred, for the
provisions of law the subject of their liabilities,
to the 9th section of the ssAct to change the or
| ganization of the Post Office Department." APP
| proved July 3, 1886.
1t is desirable that the service go into operation
on the Let July, 1858, but the commene ement may
be post oned until the 1st October succeeding if it
be absolutely necessary and is requested In any
event the contract will expire ON the 30th June,
1857. tGE& ID
Articles of contract to be executed by the &C
ceped bidder and by his suretes, by or before the
first day of July, 1852 The contract to provide.
among other things, that the pay of the "Trip Is to
be forfeited when the trip ia not performed and
not more than three times the pay Of the trip when
the trip is not run, and sufficient use for the
| failure is furnished, and due proportion OF
when grade of service ia rendered in erior to
that specified in the contract; and that fines may
be imposed, unless the delinquency be satisfacto-
riiy explained in due time; for failing 70 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 any
part of it, to be wet, injured, lost estroyed !;
for conveying it in place or manner that exposes
1t to depredaion loss, or injury; for refusing, al
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 ms ans OF transmitting intelligence, in ad
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 assigning the 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 increased service required
The Postmaster Genera may also discontinue or
curtail the service, be allowing one months extra
pay on the amount dispensed with.
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 company .offars
should be distinctly stated in the proposals.
Form Of Bid
ma Cor we, ~ Of propose to carry the
ably to the advertisement of the Postmaster Gene
raj, dated 3lst December, 1852, and by the follow
isg 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. - be
cepted by the Postmaster General, the bidder
shal prior to the lst day of july 1858, enter into
the required obligation to perform the service pro
posed, with good and sufficient suretes. .lJ
Dated. (Signed by two guara ntors.)
Form of a Certificate.
The undersigned, postmaster Of -, certiies
that he is veil acquainted with the above guaran-
tore and their property, and that they are men of
property, and able to make good their guaranty.
Dated. .-. Signed.
Proposals should be addressed, sealed, to the
Second Assistant Postmaster General, and it is
particularly important that they be marked on the
face of the letter "Proposas, River Mails
S. D. HUBBARD
Postmaster General.
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Dec. 81, 1852.
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