The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-02-22
INSTRUCTIONS,

CAS- to regularly numbered routes,)
Embracing conditions to be incorporated ~ the
contracts to the t1tent the Department may
deem proper.
[. Seven minutes are allowed to each inter.
mediate office, when not otherwise specified, for
asserting the mails; but on railroad and steam-
boat routes there is to be more delay than is
sufficient for an exchange Of the mail bags.
g. On routes where the mode of conveyance
admits of it, the special ageEts of the Depart-
ment, also post office blanks, mail bags, locks
and keys, are to be convened without extra
charge.
8. On railroad and steamboat lines, British
and Canada mails, when offered, are to be con-
veyed without additional pay; also, the route
agents Of the Department, for whose exclusive
ase while travelling with the mails, commodi
Gus car, or apartment in the centre of prop
srIy IL hted, warmed, aud furnished. and adapt
ed to the convenient assortment and due secu-
rity Of the same, is to be provided by the con-
tractor, under the direction Of the Department.
a. No pay will be made for trips not perform.
ed and for each Of such omissions not satisfaction
lily explained 3tmes the pay ofthe trip may be
deducted For arrivals so far behind time as to
break connection with depending mails, and not
sufficiently excused, one fourth of tn, compen-
sation for the trip is subject to forfeiture. De-
torrance inferior to that specified in the con-
tract For repeated deInGuencies of the kind
herein specified, enlarged penalties proportloned
to the nature thereof and the importance of the
| mail, may be made.
5. For leaving behind, or throwing off the
mails, or any portion OF them, for the admission
of passengers, or for being concerned in setting
up or running an express conveying commercial
intelligence ahead of the mail, quarters pay
may be deducted.
6. Fines will be imposed, unless the delin-
quency be promptly and satisfactorily explained
by certificates of postmasters or the affdavts Of
OF other credilable PERSONS for falling to arrive
in contract time; for neglecting to take the mail
FROM or deliver it into, post office; for suffer
ing it lowing either to the unsuitableness of the
place manner Of carrying it) to be injured, De
stroyed, robbed, or lost; and for refusing, after
demand to convey the mail as frequently as the
contractor runs, or is concerned IN running,
coach, car, or steamboat, on a route.
T. The Postmaster General may annul the
contract for repeated failures to run agreeatly
to contract; for dsobeyng the Post Office laws,
or the Instructions Of the Department; for re-
fusing to discharge carrier when required by
the Depart ment to do SO; for assigning the CON
tract without the assent Of the Postmaster Gen.
eral; for running an express aforesaid; OF for
transporting persons or packages conveying
mallabe matter out Of the mail.
g. The Postmaster General may order an in
crease ofservice on route by allowing therefor
a pro rata increase on the contract pay. He
may change the schedule Of arrivals and depar-
lures, without increase Of pay, provided he does
not curtail the amount of running time. he
may also order an increase Of speed, he allowing /,
within the restrictions Of the law, pro -a'a
increase nf..A---G@<lhe additional stock o.