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

department in Executing ii, is to obtain regular
a-u reliable lines of mail packets on this impor-
tant thoroughfare, arriving and departing at fixed
times at the principal points all the year round
and that strict compliance with the contract OBJ
i ligations 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 th z
Department, who will certify to each by name that
they Of sufficient size, strength, quality, and
capacity, and in all respects adapted to the duty
4 to be performed> No boat once accepted into the
service can be Withdrawn without the assent OF
the Department, and any new boat proposed to be
employed will be subject to like inspection and
| acceptance.
provisions of law on the subject of their liabilities
to the 9th section of the ssAct to change the orr
ganization of the Post Office Department. APP
proved July 3, 1886.
1t is desirable that the service go into operatio
on the-lst July, 1853, but the commencement may
be postponed until the Let October succeeding if It
be absolutely necessary and 10 requested. In any
event the contract will expire on the Both June,
1857.
Articles of contract are to be executed by the ac-
ceped bidder and by his snreties, by before the
first day Of July, 1853. The contract is 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 is not run, and no sufficient excuse for the
failure is furnished, and due proportion of
when grade of service is rendered inferior to
that specified in the contract; and that fines may
be imposed, unless the delinquency be satisfacto-
ry 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, 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 Qddl-
fInr,o ofa bDot H.
route, over 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 adj
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 a carrier when required by the Depart
ment tor 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.
The Postmaster General may also discontinue or
curtail the service, he allowing months extra
pay on the amount dispensed with.
The route, the service, the yearly paw the bid.
der's name and residence, and the name of each
member of the firm where company offers.
should be distinctly stated in the proposals.
Form Of Bid.
J, (or we,) -, of -, propose to carry the
mails on route No. -, from 49, 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 thatifthe foregoing
bid for carrying the mail on route No. - be &C.
cepted by the Postmaster General, the bidder
SHALL prior to the 1st day of July 1858, 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 @
The undersigned, postmaster of ---, certiies
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. Signed.
Proposals should be addressed, sealed, to the
Second Assistant Postmaster General, and it is
partiea arly important that they be marked on the
face of the letter "Proposals, River Mails.''
-~.. s. D. HUBBARD +
E,.. ."s. Postmaster General.
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Dec. 81, 1852
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