The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1854-02-23

by law or that combines several routes in ono sum Of
compensation, cannot he considered in competition
with a regular proposal reasonable in amount.
- Bidders should, in all cases, first propose for
service strictly according to the advertisement and
then, IL they desire, separately for different SERVICE
and It the regular bid be tie lowest offered for The
advertised service, the other bids may be considered
if the alterations proposed recommended by the
,tmasters and citizens interested, IL they shalt
appear manifestiy right and proper.
L. There should be but one route bid for in
proposal.
10. The route, the service, the yearly paw the
and residence Of the bidder, and those of each
member OF firm, where company offers, should be
distinctly stated; also, the mode of conveyance, If
higher mode than horseback he intended. The words
with due CELEBRITY, certainty, and security. inserted
to indicate the mode Of conveyance, will constitute
Z" star bid.''
l6. The bid should be sent under seal, addressed
TO the Second Assistant Postmaster General, SUPER
scribed d" Mail Proposals in the State Of -"
1t should be guaranteed, and the suiicicncy of the
guaraniors certified, (see forms,) and should Ike des
patched in time be received by before g. a. M,
of the 10Th Of April, 1854.
H. The cont acts 10 be executed and returned
to the Department by Def the LIST of July 1854.
Is. Pos;masters at offices railroads, but
more than eighty rods from a station, WILL mnledi-
ately after The 10th of April next report their
distance from the nearest station, aud how they
otherwise supplied with the mail, to enable the Post
master General To direct mail messenger supply
from the LIST Of July next.
10. Section Is of an act Of Congress, approved
March 8 1885, provides that for the trans
poraton of the mail shall be let g in every case
the lowest bidder, rendering sufficient guarantees for
iuthul performance, without other reference to the
mode Of such transportation than may be necessary
provide for the due celebrity, certainty, and security
Of such transportation" Under this law new
description of bids has been received. 1t does not
specify mode Of conveyance, but engages To take
the entire mail each tr with CELEBRITY certainty and
security, using the terms OF the law. These bids
sly led, from the manner in which they desig
mated the books of The Department, s'star b,ds.'
and they viii be construed providing for the entire
mail hguey large, aud ,ch1terr may be the made Of
Conveyance neeess1yo insure as eaeray, certainty and
security.
Such bids will therefore be accepted in preference
to higher bids for specific modes of conveyance on
routes where the lowest mode Of conveyance Uhat
is horseback) is known to be insufficient.
In all cases where the lowest z. ade of service is
believed to he insufficient, the lowest bid will be
cepted, If duly guaranteed, IN preference to star"
/ or specific bid.
When the lowest bid is not a bid, and speci-
fcs either mode or Inadequate mode of convey
ancc it will not be accepted bu set aside for spe-
c6c hid proposing the necessary service.
When the bid does not specify a mode OF convey
ancc also when ii proposes to carry "accorhing TO
the advertisement but without such specification
it will be considered proposal for horseback
vice.
20. 4 modification Of bid, in any Of its essen
tiai terms, tanta;nount To It'd, and cannot he
received. to interfere with regular competition
after the last hour set for receiving bids.
n. Postmastcrs are TO be careful not 10 certify
the shciency OF gl,rautors sureties without know
ING that they persons OF sufficient responsibility:
and all bidders guarantors, and sureties distinct
" notified that, Il failure enter into or pei form
the contracts for the service proposed for in the
copied bids their legal liabilities will be enfcrc ID
against them.
! %. The contracts will I've substantial, in the forms
here,olo.e used in this Department, except in the
respects particularly mentioned in these instructions
and all railroad and steamboat routes the cortrac-
tors willbe required to deliver the Is into the post
offices the ends of the and into all the inter-
mediate post Offices not than eighty rods from
the railroad landing.
%. Present contractors, and persons known at
the Department, must, equally with others, procure
guaran,o,s and certificates of their suticiency sub
santialy in the forms above prescribed. The ccrtf-
icaes of suiEciency must lie signed by postmaster,
or n julge or clerk Of a ccut of record.
/ Postmasters at the ends of routes on which they
think the present mode Of CONVEYANCE inadoquai
will weigh the mail each trip for six cssve weeks
on weekly routes, and three weeks on other routes
and report the result by the l0th April. 1854.
/ JAMES CAMPBELL,
AZ 12t Postmaster General.
/ Post Office Department, January 9, 1854.