The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1854-03-16


of the mail bags.
2. On routes where the mode.of conveyance admits
Of il the special agents Of the Department also post
Office blanks, mail bags, locks and keys, are to be
conveyed without extra charge.
g. On railroad and steamboat lines, British and
Canada mails, when offered, to he conveyed with
out additional pay; also, the agents Of the De-
partment, for whose exclusive while travelling
with the mails commOdious car apartment in the
centre of car, properly lighted, warmed, and fur
nished and adapted TO the convenient assortment and
due security Of the same, is 10 he provided by the
CONTRACTOR under the direction of the Department.
4. No pay will be made for trips not performed;
and Tor each OF such omissions not satisfactorily
planned three times the pay Of the trip may be deduct
ed. For arrivals far behind time as to break
connexon with depending mails, and not sufficiently
excused, one.lourh of the compensation for the trip
is subject TO forfeiture. Deduction will also be Or
dered for grade Of performance inferior to tina,
specified in the contract For repeated delinquencies
Of the kind herein specified enlarged penaties pro-
portoned the nature thereof and the Importance OF
the mail, may be made.
5. For leaving behind, throwing off the mails,
any portion of them for the admission of passen-
gers, or for being concerned in setting up running
express conveying commercial intelligence ahead
of the mail quarters pay may be deducted.
8. Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquency
be promptly and satisfactorily expIanedby certificates
of postmasiers, the aiidayts Of other creditabe
persons, for failing TO arrive in contract time for
neglecting take the mail from, or deliver it into
post-ofce; for suffering it lowing either the
suitabe0ss of the place manner Of carving I'D
be injured, destroyed, robbed, lost; and for rcu-
sing, after demand 10 convey the mail frequently
the contractor runs, or is concerned 10 running,
coach, car, or steamboat, on a route.
7. The Postmaster General may annul the contract
Tor repeated failures to run agrceably 10 contract for
disobcying the Post-ofice laws, the instructions OF
the Department. for refusing TO discharge a carrier
when required by the Department To do so; for
signing the contract without the assent of the Post
General; for running an express AS aforesaid
or for transporting persons or packages conveying
aable matter ont Of the mail.
6. The Postmaster General may order an increase
OF service on a 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 Gu, tail the amount of
running time He may also order increase Of speed,
he allowing, within the restrictions of the law, pro
increase of pay for the additional stock or car
ricrs, if any. The contractor may, however, in the
case of increase of Speed renqush the contract by
giving prompt notice to the Department that he pre-
fers doing to carrying the order into effect. The
Postmaster General may also curtail or discontinue
the SERVICE at pro rata decrease Of pay allowing
months extra compensation on the amount dispensed
with, whenever in his opinion, the public interests
do not require the same, in he desires su-
perccde it by different grade of transportation.
9. Payments will be made for the service ly COL
:,
after the expiration of each quartersay in February,
MAY, August, and November.
10. The distances are given according to the best
iniormaon but no increased pay will be allowed
should they be greater than advertised if the points
to be supplied be correctly stated. Bidders must in
form themselves on this point.
IL. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law
from knowingly making contract for the transporta-
ton OF the mails with any person who shall have
entered into, or proposed to enter into, any oombna
ton to prevent the making of bid for a mail
tract by any other person or persons, or who shall
have made any agreement, or shall have given
performed, or promised 10 give or perform, any
sderation whatever or to do, not 10 do ANYTHING
whatever, in order to induce any other person per-
not to bid for mail contract. Pa tcula
ton is called to the 2Sth section Of the Of 1886,
prohibiting combinations 10 prevent bidding.
II. bid received after time, viz: a. M, Of th
10Th OF April, 1854, without the guarantee required
by law, or that combines several routes in OF
compensation, cannot be considered in competition
with regular proposal reasonable in amount.
IL Bidders should, IN all cases, first propose for
service strictly according to the advertisement, and
then, If they desire, separately for different service;
and If the regular bid be the lowest offered for the
advertised ice. the other bids may he considered
If the alterations proposed are recommended by the
postmasters and citizens interested, or If they shall
appear mane>ty ght and proper.
H. There should be but route bid for in
proposal.
H. The route, the service, the yearly pay, the
and residence Of the bidder and those OF each
member of firm, where a company offers, should he
distinctly stated; aso the mode of CONVEYANCE, If Il
higher mode than horst back be intended The words
'wi,h due celebrity, certainty, and security, inserted
to Indicate the mode OF conveyance, will constitute
"staY bid
l6 The bid should be sent under seal, addressed
to the Second Assistant Postmaster General, super.
SCI bed Z" Mail Proposals in the State of -
/ hon l. nd RI ,ha
guarantors certified, (see iorms,) and should he DIES
patched IN time 10 be received by or before 9, a. III
of the 10Th Of April, 1854.
L. The contracts are to be executed and returned
TO the Department by before the lst Of Julv 1854
lS POstmasters at offices on or near railroads. but
more than eighty rods from station will, immedi-
ately after the 10Th Of April next, report their
distance from the nearest station and how they
otherwise supplied with the mail, enable the POST
master General to direct a mail messenger supply
from the lst of July next.
10. Section Is of an act Of Congress- approved
March }, 1885, provides that contracts for the
portatiOn OF the mail shall he let in every case
the lowest bidder, rendering sufficient guarantees for
eithtnl 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" Undsr this law a new
description of bids has been received. Ii does
specify mode of conveyance, but engages take
the entire mail each trip with CELEBRITY certainty and
security, using the terms OF the law. These bids
styled, from the manner in which they are desg-
mated the books Of the Department, ''aar bids"
and they will he construed providing for the entire
mail, hWerer large, and oiatsrer may be she mode %,
conryance necessary to ns ctlrity, certainty and
security.
Such bids will therefore be accepted in preference
to higher bids for specific modes of Conveyance
routes where the loves; mode of conveyance Chat
is, on horseback) is known to be Insufficient.
In all cases whore the lowest 9. abe OF service is
believed be insufficient, the lowest bid will he nc
cepted if duly guaranteed, in preference to ''star
or specific bid
When the lowest bid is not a star bid, and spec-
fes either mode an inadequate mode of convey
ance it will be accepted but set aside for spe-
cihc bid proposing the necessary service.
When the bid does not specify mode of convey
ance also when it proposes TO carry according to
the advertisement" but without such specification
1t will be considered as proposal for horseback
vice.
20. modification of bid, in any of its essen
tIa terms, Is tantamount TO bid, and cannot he
received. to interfere with regular competition
after the last hour set for receiving bids.