The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-22

Department ID executing It, II % obtain regular
and reliable lines Of mail packets on this impor.
times at the principal points all The year round
and that strict compliance with the contract OBJ
likations will be demanded.
The whole number Of boats required for tho
service accepted 10 each contractor. must be pro
vided before the contract will be considered AZ
commenced; and they will be subject 10 the in
spection of an agent or agenta, appointed BY tn
Department. who will certify to each by name thai
they 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service can be withdrawn without the aesent Of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 "Act to change the or
ganization of the Post Office Departments" APP
proved July 3, 1886.
1t is desirable that the service go into operation
on the lst July, 1853, but the commencement IN ~
be postponed until the lat October eJing. if il
be absolutely necessary and 10 requested. In any
event the contract will expire on the 30th June
1857.
Articles of contract to he executed by the
cepted bidder and by his sureties, by before the
first day of July, 1853 The contract lie TO provide
among other things that the pay of the trip is e
be forfeited when the trip is not performed, and
not more than three times the pay Of the trip when
the trip is not rum and sufficient ex' for the
failure is furnished, and due proportion of il
when grade of service is rendered interior 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, 10 deliver into the post office at the port
Of landing the mail belonging thereto. or any
part of said mails for suffering the mail, or any
part of it, to be wet, injured, lost, destroyed
for conveying it in place or manner that exposes
it to depreciation, loss, or injury; for refusing, af
ter demand made, to convey mail by any addl-
tonal steamboat run BY the contractor on the
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 m. 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 an express as aforesaid.
The Postmaster General may alter the contract,
and alter the schedule, he allowing pro rata in
crease OF compensation, within the restrictions
imposed by law for any increased service required
curtai 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
should be distinctly stated in the proposals.
Form Of a Bid
l. Cor we,) -, 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:
80 for the annual sum of - dollars.
Dated. $50 ssy SIGNED
Form Of Currently
The undersigned undertake that If the foregoing
bid for carrying the mail on route No. - be ac
cepted by the Postmaster General, the bidder
shall, prior to the lst day Of July 1885, enter into
the required obligation to perform the service pro
posed. with good and sufficient aureties
Dated (Signed by two guarantors)
.-.,,,. Form Of a Certificate.
The undersigned, postmaster Of ---, certifies
that he ia 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. Signed.
Proposals should be addressed, sealed, to the
Second Assistant Postmaster General, and it is
particularly Important that they be marked on the
face of the letter Proposals, River Mails"
S. D. HUBBARD
Postmaster General
PosT OFFICE DEPARTMEAT, Dec. 81, 1852.
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