The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-05-08
INSTRUCTIONS.

EtraCng conditions to be incorporated the contracts
to the ertent the Department may deem proper.
l. Seven minutes allowed to each intermediate
office, when not otherwise specified, for asserting the
mails but railroad and steamboat routes there is
TO be delay than is sufficient for an exchange
of the mail bags.
2 On routes where the mode of CONVEYANCE admits
of it the special agents Of the Department. also post
Office blanks, mail bags, locks and keys, are to be
conveyed without extra charge.
s. On railroad and steamboat lines, British and
Canada mails when offered to be conveyed with
out additional pay; also, the route agents Of the De-
partment, Tor whose exclusive use while travelling
with the mails cominodiOus Car, apartment in the
centre OF Car, properly lighted, warmed and fur
n'shed, and adapted to the convenient assortment and
due security OF the same, is to bc provided by the
contractor, under the direction of the Department.
a. No pay will be made for trips not performed ::
and for each of such omissions not satisfactorily ex
planned three times the pay Of the trip may be deduct
ed. For arrivals so far behind time as to break
connection with depending mails, and not sufficiently
excused, eOurth oil the compensation for the trip
il subject to forfeiture. Deduction will also be Or
dered for grade Of performance inferior to tina,
specified in the For repeated dclinquencies
OF the kind herein specified, enlarged penalties, pro-
pOrtiOned the 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 passen-
gers, 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 DELINQUENCY
he promptly and satisfactorily explained by certificates
Of posmasters, the afidavits Of other creditabe
persons, for falling to arrive in contract time; for
negecng to take the mail from, or deliver it into,
post-ofhce for suffering it lowing either to the un.
suableness Of the place manner of carving it) to
be injured, destroyed, robbed or lost; and for rei,
sing after demand, convey the mail as frequently as
the contractor runs, or is concerned in running, a
coach, car, steamboat, on a route.
Z. The Postmaster General may annul the contract
for repeated failures to agreeaby to contract for
dsobcying the Post-oce laws, the instructions Of
the Department; for refusing to discharge a carrier
when required by the Department to do so; for as
signing the contract without the assent Of the Post
master General; for running express as aforesaid
or for transporting persons packages conveying
maiabIe matter out of the mail.
q. The Postmaster General may order an increase
OF service on route by allowing therefor pro rata
increase on the contract pay. He may change the
schedule OF arrivals and departures without increase
Of pay, provided he does not cu,tail the amount of
running time. He may also order an increase of speed
he allowing, within the restrictions of the law. pro
rata increase Of pay for the additional stock or
rlers, Ut any. The contractor may, however in the
case OF increase Of speed renqush the contract bv
giving prompt notice to the Department that he ore.
,ers doing SO to carrying the order into effect. The
Postmaster General may also eurtaI or di.coutin.e