Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-10-05
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FOREIGN MAILS.
PosT OFFICE DEPARTMENT, .Sept. /, 1853
Nhe following is q copy of section z Of tht

Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Sept. l. 1853
Vie following Is copy of section Of the
Il act OF Congress, entitled San 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 ifty-fourn approved
March 3, 1853, viz:
''SEe. 3. And be IL further enacted, That the
Postmaster General shall the facts to be in
vesiigated In relation TO the contract of 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 asceraining how far the
contract corresponds with the original bids and
shall report 10 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 buit according 10 its terms
Tho Postmaster General is further directed by this
act 10 ascertain and report to Congress at its 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 suppositon that the United States shall
take the steamers according TO contract, and sell
or 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
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 al all times exer-
else control over said steamships, and shall at any
time have the right to take them for the exclusive
and service of the United States and 10 direct
such changes in their machinery and internal ar
engagements as the said Secretary may require; the
cost OF such changes TO be ascertained by the bills
actually paid therefor, and the proper compensa-
ftfan ,ff ha IS tl.x IL.
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
plete manner 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 3lst day of October next, for conveying
the mails of the United Stetes for six years from
the first day of October, 1854, in the manner and
time herein specified.
No. l. From New York to Cowes in England
and thence to Bremen Haven, in Germany and
from said Bremen Haven, by Cowes, to New York,
once a month.
Proposals for one additional trip year. each
way will be considered. .-~
No. 2. From Charleston South Carolina by Sa-
vannah, Georgia, and Key West Florida 10 Ha-
vana, in Cuba and from said Havana, by Kew
West and Savannah, to Charleston, twice a
month
No. 3. From New York TO New Orleans. twice
MONTH and back, touching at Charleston Gf
practicableD Savannah, and Havana and from
Havana TO Chagres (AspinwalD and back, twice
month
Proposals 10 omit Charleston and Savannah
will be considered.
In lieu of above, proposals will also be received
for service from New York to Aspnwall direct,
2oou miles, and back, semi-monhy, in not ex-
ceeding nine days to the trip each way; from New
York by Havana TO New Orleans, 1000 miles, and
back, sefni-monthly, in not exceeding ten DAYS TO
the trip each way; and from New Orleans to As
pinwall, direct, l 400 miles and back sem-month-
~, III NOT exceeding seven days to the trip each
way.
No. a. From Panama, New Grenada to San
Diego, California, Monterey, San Francisco and
Astoria, III Oregon, twice month each way
touching, if practicable, nj 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 isthmus
OF Panama, thus forming continuous route from
New York, &c., TO Astoria and back, twice a
month.
No 5. From New York to Liverpool. in Eng
land, and back, twenty-six trips per annum, al
such times as the Postmaster General shall direct
Proposals to touch at Holyhead, in England
will be considered.
No. q. 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 TO Vera
Cruz, Mexico and back, three times month,
supplying Tampico, Mexico, by side mail going
and returning.
Leave New Orleans on the first fourteenth. and
twenty-ffth 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-frst 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 to the
laws and regulations applicable to the ordinary
contracts ofthe Post Office Department.
The bids should be sent duly guaranteed under
seal, TO the Postmaster General and the words
Snail Proposals-Forcign Mailsn-written on the
face ofthc letter. JAMES CAMPBELL.
Sep 2l-law3w Postmaster General.