The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-28
INSTRUCTIONS.

tracts TO the extent TIE department may dceW PTP0.
l. Seven minutes allowed each ntefmsdiste ofios
when otherwise specified for asserting the mails hut on
railroad and steamboat routes there to be more delay
than is sufficient for exchange Of the mail bags.
2. On where the mode of conveyance admits OF 1t
the special agents of the Department. also post Office blanks
mail bags locks and keys to be conveyed without extra
charge.
g. On railroad and steamboat lines, British and Canada
mails, when offered be conveyed without additional
also the agents of the Department. for whose
elusive use while travelling with the mails commodous car
VI IN the centre of properly lighted. warmed
and furnished and adapted the and
que security OF the same, be provided by tho contractor
under the direction of the Department.
T. No pay will be made for trips not performed and for
such omissions satisfactorily explained three times
the pay of the trip may be deducted For arrivals so far be-
hind time as 10 break connexon with depending mails and
not Sufficiently excused, fourth the compensation for
the trip is subject to forfeiture Deduction may also
dered for grade of performance inferior to that specified in
the contract For repeated denquencies of the kind herein
specified, enlarged penalties Propooned the there
OF and the Importance of the mail, may be made
s. For leaving behind, throwing off the mails, any
portion of them for the admission of passengers for being
concerned in setting up running express conveying
commercial intelligence ahead of the mall quarters pay
may be deducted
g. Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquency be
promptly and satisfactorily explained by certificates of post
masters, the afdavs of other credabIe persons, for
falling to arrive in contract time for neglectng take
the mail FROM deliver it into, post Office for suffer-
ing IT. lowing either to the unsuitabeness of the place
manner OF carrying It, to be injured destroyed robbed,
or lost aad for refusing, after demand convey the mail
as frequently as the contractor runs concerned in
running, COACH car, or steamboat route
T. The Postmaster General may annul the contract for
repeated failures agreeably to contract for dsobev-
ing the post office laws the instructions of the Depart
ment for refusing to discharge carrier when required
py the department to do for assigning the contract
without the assent of the Postmaster General for running
an express as aforesaid for transporting persons
packages conveying maiable matter ont of he mail.
g. The Postmaster General may order an increase of ser
vice on route by allowing therefor pro increase
the contract pay He may also order increase of speed
he allowing, within the restrictions of law pro rata in
crease of pay for the additional stock carriers any,
The contractor mays however, the ofpcrease of speed
renquish the contract by giving prompt notice the Depart
men that be prefers doing carrying the order into effect
The Postmaster General may also curta discontinue the
service at rata decrease of pays he allow months
extra compensation the pensed WITH whenever
in his opinion, the public interests do require the same
or IN case he desires to supersede it by different grade Of
transportation.
g. Payments will be made for the service through drafts on
posmastcs otherwise after the expiration of each quar-
ter-say in February, May, August, and November.
TO- The distances given according the best inorma
ton but no increased pay will be allowed should they be
greater than advertised the points be supplied be correct
ly stated.
H. The Postmaster General prohibited by law from
knowingly making contraction the transportation the mails
with any person who shall have entered nto proposed
for mail contract by any other person persons who
shall have made any agreement shall have given per-
formed, or promised to give PERFORM any consideration
whateveT to do do, any thing whatever order
to induce any other person not 10 bid for mail
tract Particular attention is called the 2sh section of the
OF 1886, prohibiting combinations to prevent bidding
H. bid received after time, viz. the 4th April s53a9
m, without the guaranty required by aw that combines
severaroHtes compensation cannot considered
IN competition with regular proposal reasonable in amount
49, bidder may Offer where the transport alton called
for by the advertisement difficult impraccabe certain
seasons, to substitute inferior mode of conveyance
ntemt service specified number of days, weeks, months
he may propose to omit inaccessible office,
on the stage railroad, steamboat landing, the
case may be he moy offer to substitute inferior mode
OF supply in such He propose different times of
arrival and departure, provided running time
asked and mail connection peudiced. He may ask ad
ditional running time for The trip during specified number
of days. in of very bad roads but beyond these
changes proposal for service differing from that called for
by the advertisement will not be considered in competition
with regular bid reasonable in amount. Where bid
contains any such alterations, disadvantages will be
estimated in comparing it with other proposals.
Id. There should be but bid for in proposal
Is. The route the service. the yearly pay, the and
residence OF the bidder aud those OF each member OF hs
where company offers, should be distinctly stated also
the mode of conveyance. if higher mode than horseback
be intended.
Is. The bid should be under SEAL addressed the
Second Assistant Postmaster General superscrbed Mail
Proposals in the State of -" should be guaranteed,
and the sufcency of the guaranto certified, (see forn
and should be dispatched in time be received by before
A M, of the 4th April, 1853
IL The be executed aud returned to the
Department by or before the LIST of July, 1858.
Is. Posmasters offices railroads, but
than eighty rods from depot WILL Immediately after the
4h of April next report their distance from depot and
how they otherwise supplied with the mail enable the
Postmaster General direct mail messenger supply from
he LIST of July next
49, Under the act of March 3d. S45 the routes are 10
be let to the lowest bidders rendering sufficient guarantees
without other reference to the mode of transportation than
may be necessary for the due celeriy certainty and
cuty of such transportation When the lowest bid pro-
poses mode of conveyance inadequate the due ceer
y, certainty, and security of the mails, it will be
copied
20. When the bid does not specify mode of convey
ance, also when proposes to carry according to the ad
versement, but without such specification, it will be
sidered as proposals for horseback service.
81. Since the passage of the of March Sd, ls45,
description of bid has been received does not speci
mode of conveyance, but engages to take the entire
mail each trip with celeriy certainty and security, using
the terms of the law. These bids styled, from The
manner which they designated the books of the De-
parment, " star bids" The experience of the Department
enables it to lay down the following rules viz:
When the mail the route is not large to require
wohorse coach conveyance, star bid, if the lowest will
always be preferred to the specific bid
When the mails of such size and weight as to render
coach conveyance, the specific Did, though the highest for
coach service, adiudged to be entirely sufficient for the
route, will be preferred 10 the bid in the difference
is not such to interfere with the policy the law of s45
which looks to reduction in the cost of transportation Ex
cepons however may be allowed where the bid made