The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-26
FORM FOR A BID


The undersigned POSTMASTER, judge or clerk of cour
of record, the may be) certes that he is we'll &C
quanted with the above guarantor and property ant
that they are men of property and able TO make good the
guaranty.
Dated [signed]
INSTRUCTIONS,
Embracing conditions to be incorporated an the con
tracts to the extent the Department may deem proper
l. Seven minutes allowed TO each intermediate Office
when not otherwise specified for asserting the NAILS but
railroad and steamboat routes there be delay
| than Is sufficient for exchange of the mail bags.
q On routes where the mode Of conveyance admits of il
the special agents of the Department also post office blanks
mall bags locks and keys to be conveyed without
charge.
3. On railroad and steamboat lines, British and Canada
mails when offered be conveyed without additional
pay also the route agents of the Department for whose
elusive while travelling with the mails commodious ar
or apartment IN the centre of car, properly lgh ed warmed
and furnished and adapted to the and
due security of the is to be provided by the contractors
under the direction of the Department.
A. No pay will be made for trips not performed aud for
each OF such omissions not satisfactorily explained three times
the pay of the trip may be deducted For arrivals far be-
hind time to break connection with depending mails and
not sufficiently excused, fourth of the compensation for
the trip subject forfeiture. Deduct may also be or
dered for grade of performance inferior to that specified
the contract For repeated denquences OF the kind herein
specified enlarged penalties propooned to the there
. of and the importance of the mail, may be made.
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portion of them for the adms ion of passengers or for being
concerned in setting up running express conveying
Commercial intelligence ahead of the mail quarters pay
may be deducted.
g. Fines will be imposed unless the delinquency be prompt
and satisfactorily explained by certificates of postmasters
or the adavs of other cfedtabe persons, for failing to
rive in contract ime for neglecng to lake the mail FROM
deliver it into, post office for suffering it, lowing either
the unsuableness of the place of CARRYING M TO be
injured destroyed robbed lost and for refusing after de-
mand, to convey the mail frequently the contractor
runs is concerned in running, COACH car steamboat
| on route.
peated failures ageeably contract for dsobeyg
the post Office laws the instructions of the Department
for refusing to discharge carrier when required by the De
partmen to do for assigning the contract without the
sent OF the Postmaster Generals for running express
aforesaid for transporting persons packages conveying
maiable matter out of the mail.
g. The Postmaster General may order increase of service
route by allowing therefor pro rata increase the
contract pay He may also order increase of speed he
allowing within the restrictions of the law pro rata in
of pay for the additional stock carriers if any,
The contractor may however, the of of speed
renquish the contract by giving prompt notice the Depart
men that he prefers dong so to carrying the order into eff
The Postmaster General may also curta discontinue the
service at rata decrease of pay be allow months
extra compensation on the dispensed WITH whenever
in his opinion the public interests do require the same
10 in he desires to supesede by different grade of
Transportation
g. be madefo the service through drafts on
posmasters otherwise after the expiration of each
say in February, May, August, and November.
l0 The distances given according to the best nforma
but increased will be allowed should they be great
er than advertised if the points 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 person who shall have entered no or proposed
into, any combination prevent the making of any bic
for mail contract by any other person persons or who
shall have made any agreement shall have given per
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whatever, to do, or not to do, any thing whatever
order to induce any other person persons bid for
mail contract Particular attention is called the 2Sh sec
ton of the act of 1885, prohibiting combinations proven
| bidding.
IL. bid received after time. viz the 4h of April, 1853
at m or without the guaranty required by law or tina
combines several routes of compensation cannot BIZ
considered in competition with regular proposal reasonable
| in amount.
49, bidder may ofe where the transportation cad fol
by the is difficult mpractcabe certain
sons to substitute inferior mode of conveyance to in
ernit service specified number of days. weeks or months
He may propose to omit inaccessible Office or one not
on the stage railroad, at steamboat landing as
the case may be he may offer to substitute inferior
mode OF supply IN such He may propose different
times of arrival and departure, provided no more run
ming time is asked, and mail connexon preudiced He
may ask additional running time for the trip during spec
ned number OF days, of very bad roads bul
beyond these changes, proposal for differing from
that called for by the advertisement will not be considered
competition with regular bid reasonable in amount
mere DID contains such alterations, their dsadvana
ges will be estimated in comparing with other proposals
ID There should be but route bid for in proposal
Is. The route, the service, the yearly pay the
and residence of the bddeand those of each member of
firm where company Offers should be distinctly stated
also the mode of conveyance if higher mode than horse
back be intended.
Is. The bid should be 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 guarantors certified, see FORMS
and should be dispatched in time to be received by before
i 9 A. M of the 4th April, 1853.
II The be executed and returned the
| Department by or before the LIST of July 1853.
l8. Postmasters at Offices railroads. but
more than eighty rods from depot will Immediately af-
the 4h April next report their distance from depot
and how they otherwise supplied with the mall to en-
able the Postmaster General direct mail messenger SUD-
| ply from the 1st July next.
49, Under the of March3 845 the routes are to be let
to the lowest bidders rendering sufficient guarantees without
other reference the mode of transportation than NAV be
cesay for the due celebrity, certainty, and security of such
transportation When the lowest bid proposes mode of
veyance inadequate TO the due CELEBRITY certainty and
| ry of the mails, it will not be accepted.
90 When the bid does not specify mode of conveyance,
also when proposes carry according the advertisement
but without such specification, will be considered
proposal for horseback service.
H. Since the passage of the act of March g. l645,
description OF bid has been received 1t does not specify
OF but to take the entire mail
trip with CELEBRITY, certainty, and secuity using the terms of
the law These bids styled, from the manner in which
they are designated the books Of the Department. star