The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-02-08
INSTRUCTIONS,

(As to regularly numbered routes,)
Embracing conditions to be incorporated IN the
contracts to the trtent the Department may
deem proper.
l. 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 no 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 ageAts Of the Depart.
nent, also post Office blanks, mail bags, locks
and KEYS, are to be convened without extra
charge.
). 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
use while travelling with the nails, commodi
Gus car or apartment in the centre of car, prop
erly lighted, warmed, and furnished, and adapt
ed to the convenient assortment and due secu-
rty of the same, is to be provided by the con.
tractor, under the direction Of The Department
4. No pay will be made for trips not perform
ed; and for each of such omissions not satsfacter
lily explained times the pay ofthe trip maybe
deducted. For arrivals SO far behind time as to
break connexion with depending mails, and not
sufficiently excused, one fourth of the compen-
sation for the trip is subject to forfeiture. De-
duction will also be ordered for grade of per-
torrance inferior to that specified in the con-
tract For repeated delInGuencies of the kind
he rein specified, enlarged penalties, proportloned
to the nature there Of and the importance of the
mall may be made
5. For leaving behind, or throwing off the
mails, or any portion ut 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.
o. Fines will be imposed, unless the delin-
quency be promptly and satisfactorily explained
by certificates of postmasters, or the afidavits OF
OF other credtable persons, for failing to arrive
in contract tiine for neglectng to take the mail
from, or deliver it into, post office; for suffer-
ing it lowing either 10 the uusutableness ofthe
place or manner of carrying it) to be injured, de
stroy ed robbed, or lost; and ior refusing, alter
demand, to convey the mail as frequently as the
contractor runs, o. is concerned IN running,
coach, car, or steamboat, on route.
7. The Postmaster General may annul the
contract for repeated failures to run agreeably
to contract; for disobeying the Post Office laws,
or the instructions Of the Department; for re-
fusng to discharge a carrier when required by
the Department To do SO; for asst gnng the con
tract without the assent of the Postmaster Gen.
eral; for running an express aforesaid; or for
transporting persons or packages conveying
mailabe matter out of the mail.
g. The Postmaster General may order an in.
crease of service on a route by allowing therefor
| 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 tlme' lie
may also order an increase of speed, he allowing,
within the restrictions Of the law, pro rata
increase ofpay for the additional stock or car