Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-10-23
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FOREIGN MAILS.
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PosT OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Sept. L. 1853
uNhe following is copy of section 3 Of the
IL act Of Congress, entitled IAN act making APP
preparations for the transportation of the United
States mail by ocean steamers, aud Otherwise
during the fiscal year ending the 3Oth Of June, one
thousand eight hundred and fiffy-iourp approved
March 8, 1853, viz:
Sec. 3. And be az further enacted That the
Postmaster General shall cause the facts To be in
vesiigatsd in relation 10 the contract of "A. G. Sloo
for the transportation of the mail in ocean steam
ers from New York 10 New Orleans Charleston
Savannah, Havana and Chagres and back, per
act of March third, eighteen hundred and forty
seven for the purpose of ascertaining how Car the
contract corresponds with the original bids, and
shall report to Congress at the next session the
facts and circumstances connected with the said
contract; and also for what amount the said mail
service could be performed II new contract
should be made, and whether the ships furnished
under said contract built according 10 its terms
Tho Postmaster General is further directed by this
act TO ascertain, and report to Congress at it's next
session, for what amount the service, now per-
formed under the several contracts with the Navy
and Post Office Departments for carving the mail
in ocean steamers, can be hereafter performed
upon the supposition that the United States shall
take the steamers according TO contract, and sell
or transfer them.p
Except in respect 10 the New Orleans and Vera
Cruz route which may be discontinued by the Post
master General, on the allowance of one months
extra pay the clause in all the contracts giving TO
the United States the right TO take possession Of
the ships is, in substance, as follows:
"And the said Secretary of the United States
Navy, for the time being, shall at all times exer-
else control over said steamships and shall al any
time have the right to take them for the exclusive
and service OF the United States and to direct
such changes in their machinery and internal arr
engagements as the said Secretary may require; the
cost OF such changes 10 be ascertained by the bills
actually paid. therefor, and the proper compensa-
Il he n he SUh oh os
aforesaid, TO be ascertained by appraisers to be
mutually chosen by the parties aforesaid"
| NOW, NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that
with view of reporting TO Congress, in as com
| plete manner as possible, the information called
for by Congress in section third above quoted from
| the act of Sd March last
PROPOSALS
| Will be received at the Post Office Department, in
| the city of Washington, until 8 o'clock D. M, OF
Monday, 31st day Of October next, for conveying
the mails of the United Suites for six years from
the first day OF October, 1854, in the manner and
time herein specified
i No. /. From New York TO Cowes, in England,
| and thence TO Bremen Haven, in Germany and
from said Bremen Haven, by Cowes, to New York,
4 once month.
Proposals for one additional trip a wear, each
| way, will be considered.
! No. 2. From Charleston, South Carolina, by Sa-
vannah, Georgia, and Key West, Florida, to Ha-
vana, in Cuba, and from said Havana, by Key
! West and Savannah, to Charleston, twice a
month.
/ No. 3. From New York to New Orleans twice
a month, and back, touching at Charleston, III
/ practicableD Savannah, and Havana, and from
Havana to Chagres tAspinwalD and back, twice a
month.
Proposals to omit Charleston and Savannah
will be considered
/ In lieu of above, proposals will also be received
| for service from New York TO Aspinwall direct,
1000 miles, and back, semi-monthly, in not ex-
ceeding nine days to the trip each way; from New
| York by Havana to New Orleans, 2, 600 miles, and
| back, semi-monthly, in not exceeding ten days to
| the trip each way; and from New Orleans to As
pinwall, direct 1.400 miles and back, semi-month-
| ly, in not exceeding seven days to the trip each
way.
| No. A. From Panama, New Grenada, TO San
Diego, California, Monterey, San Francisco and
| Astoria, in Oregon, twice a month each way
touching if practicable, al Port Oxford, in Oregon
and at such other intermediate ports on the coast
Of Oregon or California as in the opinion of the
Postmaster General the public interest may re-
quire.
The schedules of Nos. 3 and must be SO ar
ranged as TO make due connection at the isthm,Is
of Panama, thus forming continuous route from
New York, &c. to Astoria and back, twice a
| month.
No. S. From New York to Liverpool, in Eng
| land, and back, twenty-six trips per annum, at
such times as the Postmaster General shall direct
| Proposals TO touch at Hoyhead, in England,
No. 8. From New York, by Cowes, in England
| to Havre, in France, and back, once month.
| Proposals for changing the terminus Of this
| line from Havre TO Antwerp, in Belgium, and for
one additional trip year, each way, will be con
| sidered.
| No. Z. From New Orleans, Louisiana, TO Vera
| Cruz, Mexico, and back, three times a month";
| supplying Tampico, Mexico, by side mail going
and returning.
Leave New Orleans on the first, fourteenth, and
| twenty-ffih days.
Arrive al Vera Cruz same month by the fourth
seventeenth and twenty-eighth days
Leave Vera Cruz every month on the first, sixth,
and twenty first days.
Arrive at New Orleans same month by the
fourth, ninth, and twenty-tourth days.
The proposals in each instance should specify
the number of days TO be taken for the trip each
way, and the mode of conveyance, which must be
by steamships in all respects suitable for the SER
| vice.
Ifcontracts should be entered into, contractors
will be required TO conform in all respects 10 the
laws and regulations applicable to the ordinary
contracts of the Post Office Department..
| The bids should be sent duly guaranteed, under
seal, TO the Postmaster General, and the words
| "Mail posals-Foreign Mailsn-written on the
| face of the letter. JAMES CAMPBELL.
Sep 21-law3w Postmaster General.
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