The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-02-23


that they of property and able TO make good the
guaranty.
Dated TSigned]
INSTRUCTIONS,
Embracing conditions to be Incorporated an the con-
tracts to the extent the Department may deem proper.
l. Seven minutes are allowed to each intermediate Office
when not otherwise specified for asserting The msis but
railroad and steamboat routes there to be delay
than Is sufficient for exchange of the mail bags.
q On routes where the mode Of conveyance admits of it
the special agents of the Department also post office blanks
mail bags locks and keys be conveyed without extra
charge.
On railroad and steamboat lnes British and Canada
mails when offered, to be conveyed without additional
pays also the route agents of the Department. for whose
elusive use while travelling with the mails commodous car
or apartment in the centre of properly lighted, warmed
and urnshed and adapted the and
security of the same to be provided by the contractors
under the direction Of the Department.
a. No pay will be made for trips not performed ard for
each of such omissions satisfactorily explained three times
the pay of the trip may be deducted For arrivals far
hind time to break connexon with depending mails, and
not sufficiently excused, oneouh of the compensation for
the trip subject to forfeiture Deduction may also be
deed for grade Of performance inferior that specified in
the contract For repeated delnquences of the kind herein
specified enlarged penalties propotoned the nature there
OF and the importance of the mail, may be made
S. For leaving behind, throwing off the mails or any
portion Of them for the adms ion of passengers or or being
concerned in setting up running express conveying
commercial intelligence ahead of the MAIL quarters pay
may be deducted 81
6. Fines will be imposed unless the delinquency be prompt
y and satisfactorily explained by certificates of postmasters
or the adavits of other cedable PERSONS for failing
rive in contract time for negecing to take the mail FROM
deliver into, post Office for suffering it, lowing either to
the unsuabeness of the place of carrying it to be
injured, destroyed robbed or ost and for refusing after de-
mand, to convey the mail frequently the contractor
runs, or is concerned in running coach, car steamboat
on route.
T. The Postmaster Generafnsy annuI the contract f& re-
peated failures to agreeaby to contract for dsobeyng
the post office laws, the instructions of the Department;
for refusing to discharge carrier when required by the De-
parment to do for assigning the contract without the
sent of the Postmaster General for running express as
aforesaid for transporting persons packages conveying
mailabe matter out of the mail.
g. The Postmaster General may order increase service
route by allowing therefor pro increase on the
contract pay He may also order increase of speed he
allowing, within the restrictions of the law, pro in
of pay for the additional stock carriers if any,
The contractor may however, in the of increase of speed
enquish the contractby giving prompt notice to the Depart
ment that he prefers doing so to carrying the order into effect
The Postmaster General may also curta discontinue the
SERVICE at pro rata decrease of pay, he allow months
extra compensation the amount dispensed WITH whenever
in his opinion, the public interests do require the same
or In in case he desires to supsrsede by different grade of
transpo tation.
9. Paymentsw be made for the service through drafts on
posmases otherwise after the expiration of each quarter
say in February, May, August, and November.
TO- The distances given according to the best inorma
ton but increased pay will be allowed should they great
er than advertised, If the to be supplied be correctly
stated.
IL. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law from
knowingly making contract for the transportation of the mails
with any who shall have entered no proposed
enter no any combination to prevent the making of any bid
for mail contract by any other person persons who
shall have made any agreement shall have given per-
formed promised to give perform, any consideration
whatever, to do, not to do, any thing whatever in
9th mot a
mail contract Particular attention called to the 18th
ton of the act of 1885, prohibiting combinations prevent
bidding.
IL. bid received after time, viz the 4th of April 1853
m, without the guaranty required by law or that
combines several routes in compensation be
considered in competition with regular proposal reasonable
in amount.
49, bidder may ofe where the transportation called for
by the advertisement is difficult mpacticabe certain
to substitute inferior mode of conveyance or to in
ermt service specified number of days. weeks or months
He may propose to omit inaccessible Office, not
on the stage or ralroad or at steamboat landing,
the case may be; he may offer substitute inferior
mode of supply in such He may propose different
times of arrival and departure. provided no more run
ming time asked, and mail connexion preudced He
may ask additional running time for the trip, during speci-
fed 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 their dsadvanta
ges will be estimated in comparing with ether proposals
H. There should be but route bid for in proposal
10. The route the service, the yearly pay, the name
and residence of the bidder and those of each member of
firm, where company offers, should be distinctly stated
also the mode Of conveyance higher mode than horse
back be intended.
IT, The bid should be sent under SEAL addressed to the
Second Assistant Postmaster General, superscrbed Mail
Proposals in the State of ." 1t should be guaranteed,
and the sucency of the guarantos certified, see forms
and should be dispatched time to be received by or before
9 A. M. of the 4th April, 1853.
n The contracts be executed and returned to the
Department by or before the LIST of July 1858.
Is. Postmasters at offices railroads. but
more than eighty rods from depot WILL Immediately af
ter the 4h April next report their exact distance from depot
and how they otherwise supplied with the mail to
able the Postmaster General direct mail messenger sup
ply from the 1st July next.
49, Under the of March 1885, the routes are to be let
to the lowest bidders rendering sufficient guarantees without
other reference the mode of transportation than may be
cessay, for the due celebrity certainty and security of such
transportation When the lowest bid proposes mode of con-
veyance inadequate the due CELEBRITY certainty and secu
rity Of the mails, it will not be accepted
20 When the bid does not specify mode of conveyance
also when proposes carry according the advertisement
but without such specifications it will be considered
proposal for horseback service
81 Since the passage of the act of March B. l645,
description of bid has been received does not specify
mode OF conveyance but to take the entire mail each
trip with ceery certainty and security, using the terms of
the law These bids styled from the in which
they designated the books Of the Department. "star