Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-10-21
@gbernmfnt advertisement.
FOREIGN MAILS.
posr orrlor Drr4nrlrsr, ssp,. /, 1853.

Posr OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Sep /, 1853.
We following is copy OF section 3 Of the
IL act of Congress, entitled "An act making APP
preparations for the transportation of the United
States mail by ocean steamers, and otherwise,
during the fiscal year ending the Both of june one
thousand eight hundred and fify-four,h approved
March 8, 1883, viz:
.SEc 3. And be IL fkrther enacted That the
Postmaster General shall cause the facts to be in
vesgated 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 far 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 if new contract
should be made, and whether the ships furnished
under said contract are built according TO its terms
Tho Postmaster General is further directed by this
act TO ascertain and report 10 Congress al It's next
session, for what amount the service, now per-
formed under the several contracts with the Navy
and Post Office Departments for carrying the mail
in ocean steamers, can be hereafter performed,
upon the suppostion that the United States shall
take the steamers according to contract, and sell
transfer them.n
Except in respect TO 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 10
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 at any
time have the right TO take them for the exclusive
use and service of the United States and TO direct
such changes in their machinery and internal ar
engagements as the said Secretary may require the
cost OF such changes TO be ascertaned by the bills
actually paid therefor, and the proper compensa-
ton ofthe value OF the ships, when so taken as
aforesaid, TO be ascerained 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
piete 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 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.
No |. From New York to Cowcs, in England
and thence to Bremen Haven, in Germany, and
from said Bremen Haven, by Cowes, TO New York.
once month.
Proposals for one additional trip a year, each
way, will be considered.
No2. From Charleston, South Carolina, by Sa-
vannah, Georgia, and Key West Florida TO Ha-
vana, in Cuba, and from said Havana, by Key
VSSt anu ouNahhdli, " SudTlcStOn, IWlCe
month. sts,
No 8. From New York to New Orleans, twice
a month, and back, touching at Charleston, Gf
practicabeD Savannah and Havana and from
Havana to Chagres (AspinwalD and back, twice
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-monthy, in not ex-
cor do,
York by Havana to New Orleans, 1000 miles, and
back, semi-monthly, in not exceeding ten days to
the trip each way; and from New Orleans TO As
pinwall, direct, 400 miles and back semi-month-
ly, in not exceeding seven days to the trip each
way.
No. 4. From Panama, New Grenada, TO San
Diego, California, Monterey, San Francisco, and
Astoria in Oregon, twice a month each way
touching II practicable, at 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. and 4 must be so ar.
ranged as TO make due connection at the isthmus
OF Panama, thus forming a continuous route from
New York, &c, TO Astoria and back twice
month.
No $. From New York 10 Liverpool, in Eng
land, and back, twenty-six trips per annum at
such times as the Postmaster General shall direct
Proposals TO touch at Holyhead, in England
will be considered
No 9. From New York, by Cowes, in England.
to Havre, in France, and back, once a 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. 7. From New Orleans, Louisiana 10 Vera
Cruz, Mexico, and back three times a month.
supplying Tampico, Mexico, by a side mail going
and returning.
Leave New Orleans on the first, fourteenth, and
twenty-fifth days.
Arrive at Vera Cruz same month BY the fourth |
seventeenth, and twenty eighth days.
Leave Vera Cruz every month on the first sixth !
and twenty-irst days.
Arrive at New Orleans same month by The
fourth, ninth, and twenty fourth 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.
II contracts should be entered into contractors
Will be required to conform in all respects 10 the
laws and regulations applicable 10 the ordinary
contracts the Post Office Department.
The bids should be sent duly guaranteed, under
seal, to the Postmaster General and the words
SNAIL Proposals-Foreign Mailsn-written on the |
face the letter. JAMES CAMPBELL
sep 2l-law3w Postmaster General. |