Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-09-29
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FOREIGN MAILS.
Posr OFFICE DrrAnrnrsr, Sem. /. 1ssa.

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Posr OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Sept /, 1853.
We following Is copy of section 3 Of the
Il ACT OF Congress, entitled can act making APP
preparations Tor 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 tifty-four y annroved
March 3, 1853, viz:
SEC. g. Aud BE- "a further enacted That the
Postmaster General shall cause the facts 10 be in
vesiigated in relation to the contract of A. G. Sloo.
for the transportation OF the mail in ocean steam
ers from New York to New Orleans, Charleston.
Savannah, Havana aud Chagres, and back. per
act of March third, eighteen hundred and forty-t
seven for the purpose OF ascertaining 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 a new contract
should be made, and whether the ships furnished
under said contract are built according 10 its terms
Tho Postmaster General is further directed by this
act 10 ascertain, and report TO Congress its next
session, for what amount the service now per-
formed under the several contracts with the Navy
and Post Oifce Departments for carrying the mail
in ocean steamers, can be hereafter performed
upon the supposiiion that the United States shall
take the steamers according 10 contract and sell
or transfer them"
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 10
The United States the right to take possession of
the ships, Is, in substance, as follows:
Sand the said Secretary of the United States
Navy, ior 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 ascerained bV the bills
actually paid therefor, and the proper compensa-
ton of the value Of the ships when so taken as
aforesaid, to be ascertaned 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 u 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 3 o'clock D. m, of
Monday, Dist day of October next, for conveying
the mails of the United Stgtes for six wears from
the first day Of October, 1851 in the manner and
time herein specified
No. /. From New York to Cowes i'm 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 year, 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, 10 Charleston twice
month. @
No 3. From New York TO New Orleans twice
month, and back, touching al Charleston, If
practicableD 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 10 Aspinwal direct
1000 miles, and back, scmi-monthly, in not ex-
ceedng nine days TO the trip each way; from New
York by Havana to New Orleans 2, 900 niles and
back, semi-monthy, in not exceeding Ten days TO
the trip each way; and from New Orleans to As
pnwall direct 400 miles and back, semi month
", IN not exceeding seven days TO the trip each
way.
No. 4. From Panama, New Grenada 10 San
Diego, California, Monterey, San Francisco and
Astoria, in Oregon, twice month each way
touching if 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. l# , II
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. S. From New York 10 Liverpool in Eng
land, and back, twenty-six trips per annum at
such times 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 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-
sdered.
No. 7. From New Orleans, Louisiana to Vera
Cruz, Mexico, and back three times month
supplying Tampico, Mexico by side mail going
and returning. Ef#1
Leave New Orleans on the first, fourteenth, and
twenty fifth days.
Arrive at Vera Cruz same month by the fourth
seventeenth, and twenty-eglth 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 10 be taken for the trip each
way, and the mode ofconveyance which must be
by steamships in all respects suitable for the SER
vice.
If contracts 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 Proposals--Foreign ails''-wrtten on the
face of the letter. JAMES CAMPBELL.
Sep 2l--law3w Postmaster General