The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-05

department in executing 1t, is to obtain regular
a-u reliable lines of mail packets on this impor-
tant thorough fare, arriving and departing at fixed
times at the principal points all the year round
and that strict compliance with the contract obs
LEGATIONS will be demanded.
The whole number Of boata required for the
service accepted 10 each contractor. must be pro
vided before the contract will be considered as
commenced; and they will be subject to the in
spection of an agent or agents, appointed by the
Department, who will certify to each by name that
they are of sufficient size, strength, quality, and
capacity, and in all respects adapted to the duty
to be performed.> No boat once accepted into the
service be Withdrawn without the assent OF
the Department, and any new boat proposed to be
employed will be subject to like inspection and
acceptance.
Bidders and guarantors are referred, for the
provisions of law the subject of their liabilities,
to the 9th section of the t.Act to change the or
ganization of the Post Office Department" APP
proved July 3, 1886. 6a
1t is desirable that the service go into operation
on the lst July, 1858, but the commencement may
be postponed until the lst October succeeding, if it
be absolutely necessary and is requested. In any
event the contract will expire on the Both June,
Articles of contract are to be executed by the
cepted bidder and by his sureties, by before the
first day of July, 1853. The contract s to provides
among other things, that the pay Of the trip is to
be forfeited when the trip is not performed, land
not more than three times the pay Of the trip when
the trip not run, and no sufficient excuse for the
failure is furnished, and a due proportion of j.
when grade of service is, rendered inferior to
that specified in the contract; and that fines may
be imposed, unless the delinquency be satisfacto
rily explained in due time; for failing to take
from, or to deliver into the post office at the port
Of landing the mail belonging thereto, or any
part of said mail for suffering the mail, OF any
part of it, to be wet, injured lost, or destroyed;
for conveying it in place or manner that exposes
1t to depreciation, loss injury; for refusing, af
ter demand made, to convey mail by any addl-
tso, x
route, and above the specified number of trips
in the contract, and for not arriving at the time
set; also for transmitting intelligence, furnish
ing the me ans of transmitting Intelligence, in ad
vance of the mail. The Postmaster General may
annul the contract for repeated failures; for vic
lating the post Office laws for disobeying the in
structions of the Department; for refusing to dis
charge carrier when required by the Depart
ment for assigning the contract without the con-
sent of the Postmaster General, or for setting up
or running express aforesaid. IA
The Postmaster General may alter the contract,
and alter the schedule, he allowing pro rata in
imposed by law for any increased service required.
The Postmaster General may also discontinue or
curtail the service, he allowing one months extra
pay on the amount dispensed with.
The route, the service, the yearly pay, the bid
der's name and res dence, and the name of each
member of the firm where company offers,
should be distinctly stated in the proposals.
Form Of Bid
], (or WEI -, of -, propose to carry the
mails on route No. -, from - to -, agree
ably to the advertisement of the Postmaster Gene
raj, dated 3lst December 1852, and by the follow.
ing mode of conveyance, viz:
- for the annual sum of - dollars. ~
Dated Signed.
Form Of a Guaranty.
The undersigned undertake thatif the foregoing
bid for carrying the mail on route No. - be &C
cepted by the Postmaster General, the bidder
SHALL prior to the lst day of july 1853 enter into
the required obligation to perform the service pro-
posed, with good and sufficient sureties.
Dated (Signed by two guarantors.)
Form Of a Certificate. aa.a
The undersigned, postmaster of --, certifes
that he is well acquainted with the above guaran-
tors and their property, and that they are men of
property, and able to make good their guaranty. !.
Dated. 5a Signed.
Proposals should be addressed, sealed, to the
Second Assistant Postmaster General, and it is
important that they be marked on the
face of the letter proposals, River Mails"
s. d. HUBBARD n
r. Ea"s Postmaster General.
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT., Dec. 81, 1852.
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