The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-05-10
INSTRUCTIONS,


(As to regularly numbered roues,)
Embracing conditions to be Incorporated the contrac
| to the e1tcnt the Department may deem proper.
l. Seven minutes allowed to each intermediate
office, when not otherwise specified, for asserting thu
mails but on railroad and steamboat routes there /:
10 be delay than is sufficient for an exchange
of the mail bags.
z. On routes where the mode of conveyance admit:
of it the special agents of the Department, also post
office blanks, mail bags, locks and keys, are to bt
conveyed without extra charge.
3. On railroad and steamboat lines, British ant
Canada mails, when offered, to be conveyed with
out additional pay also, the agents of the De-
partment, Tor whose exclusive Use while travelling
with the mails commodiOus car apartment in the
centre oil Car, properly lighted, warmed, and fur.
nshed, and adapted 10 the convenient assortment and
due security OF the same, is to he provided by the
contractor, under the direction of the Depar tment
4. No pay will he made for trips not performed ;
and Tor each of such omissions not satisfactorily ey
planned three times the pay Of the trip may be detuc,
ed. For arrivals far behind time as to break
connexion with depending mails, and not sufficiently
excused, One-iOurh Of the compensation for the trim
is subject to forfeiture. Deduction will also be Or
dered for a grade Of performance inferior to tina,
specified in the contract. For repeated delinquencies
of the kind herein specified, enlarged penalties, pro-
portioned to the nature thereof and the importance
the mail may be made.
8. For leaving behind, or throwing off the mails,
or any portion of them, for the admission of passen-
gers or for being concerned i'm setting up or running
an express conveying commercial intelligence ahead
ot the mail. quarters pay may he deducted.
3. Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquency
be promptly and satisfactorily explained bv certificates
OF p'stmasters, the affidavs of other creditabc
persons, Tor failing to arrive in contract time: for
neSecinS to take the mail from, or deliver it into,
p"st-oifice; for suffering it lowing either to the IN
suitableness Of the place manner of carving m 10
he injured, Destroyed robbed, or lost; and for re,
sing, after demand, to convey the mail as frequently
the contractor runs, is concerned in RUNNING. q
coach, car, or steamboat, on a route.
Z. The Postmaster General may annu| the contract
for repeated failures to agreeably to conract for
disobcyng the Post-ofice laws, the instructions of
the Department; for refusing to discharge carrier
when required by the Department to do so; tor as
signing the contract without the Of the Post
master General; for running express aforesaid /;
OF Tor transporting persons or packages conveying
ma''ab'e matter ont of the mail.
o. The Postmaster General may order an increase
o. service on route by allowing therefor pro rata
"','ea$e on the Contract pay. He may change the
S"eo"'e Oh arrivals and departures without increase
OF pays provided he does not en-, tai the amount ri
running tme He may also order an increase Of sneed
ne allowing, within the restrictions of the law. nro
rata increase Of pay for the additional stock or car.
r'ers, II any. The contractor NAV. however in the
case OF increase of speed relinuish the cnnrc, hv
giving prompt notice to the Department thar be
ers doing 50 to carrying the order into effect The
Postmaster General may also curtail or discontinue