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

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 case he desires to SUI
percede it by a different grade Of transportation.
8. Payments will be made for the service by COL
lection Of, drafts on, postmasters, otherwise,
after the expiration Of each quarter-say in February,
May, August, and November.
TO- The distances given according to the best
information; but no increased pay will be allowed
should they be greater than advertised il the points
to he supplied be correctly stated. Bidders must in
form themselves on this point.
IL. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law
from knowingly making contract Cor the trans
ton of the mails with any person who shall have
entered into, or proposed enter nto any co,nbna-
ton prevent the making of any bid for mail
tract by any other person or persons, who shall
have made any agreement, or shall have given or
performed, promised to give perform, any con-
sideraiOn whatever, to do, not to do ANYTHING
whatever in order to induce any other person or per-
not to bid for mail contract. Pal ticuIar atcn-
ton is called to the 18th section Of the act of 1885,
prohibiting combinations to prevent bidding.
IL. A bid received after time, viz: a. M, Of III
10th of April, 1854, without the guarantee required
by law, that combines several routes in one sum of
compensation, cannot be considered in competition
with regular proposal reasonable in amount.
The words ''with due celebrity, certainty and secu
rity.' inserted here, will constitute the bid "stav
l3 Bidders should, in all cases, first propose for
service strictly according to the advertisement and
them If they desire, separately for different service;
and if the regular bid be the lowest offered for the
advertised service, the other bids may he considered
If the alterations proposed are recommended by the
EOstmasers and citizens interested, or If they shall
appear maniiestly right and proper.
ii. There should be but one route bid for in a
proposal.
Is. The route, the service, the yearly pay, the
and idencc Of the bidder, and those Of each
member Of IA firm, where company offers, should be
distinctly stated also, the mode Of conveyance, if
higher mode than horseback he intended. The words
"wth due celebrity, certainty, and security" inserted
to indicate the mode of conveyance, will constitute
| Z" star bid.''
l6. The bid should be sent under seal, addressed
to the Second Assistant Postmaster General, super
scrbed Mail Proposals in the State Of --.''
1t should be guaranteed, and the sufcicncy Of the
guarantors certified, (see forms) and should he DIES
patched in time to be received by or before 9, q,
of the 10th of April, 1854.
II. The contracts are to he executed and returned
to tie Department by before the LIST of Juy 1854
Is. Postnasters at Offices near railroads, but
more than eighty rods from station, will, immed-
atey 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 1St Of July next.
10. Section Is of an act Of Congress, approved
March 3, l845. provides that contracts for the trans
pOrtation of the mail shall be let, in every case,
the lowest bidder rendering sufficient guarantees for
tsithfu performance, without other reference to the
mode OF such transportation than may be necessary to
provide for the due celebrity, certainty, and security
Of such transportation Under this law a new
description Of bids has been received. 1t does not
specify mode of conveyance, but engages to take
the entire mail each trip with celebrity, certainty and
security, using the terms OF the law. These bids
are styled, from the manner in which they desg-
mated on the books of the Department, 'Star bids, "
and they will be construed providing for the entire
mall howerr large, and uhaterer may be the mode of
Conveyance necessaryto insure its cley certainty and
security.
Such bids will therefore be accepted in preference
to higher bids for specific modes of conveyance on
routes where the lowest mode Of conveyance (that
is, on horseback) is known to be insufficient.
In all cases where the lowest g: ade of service is
believed to be insufficient, the lowest bid will be ac-
cepted, if duly guaranteed, in preference to star'
or specific bid.
When the lowest bid is not a star bid, and speci-
lies either no mode or an Inadequate mode Of convey
ance. it will not be accepted, but aside for spe-
chic bid proposing the necessary service.
" hen the bid does not specify mode of convey
ance, also when it proposes to carry ''according to
the advertisement" but without such specification
it will be considered as proposal for horseback
vice.
TO- modification Of a bid, in any Of its essen
ia terms, is tantanoun to new lid, and cannot be
received. SO as to interfere with regular competition
after the last hour set for receiving bids.
Fl. Postmasters are to be careful not to certify
the sufflcIency OF guarantOrs suretes without know
ing that they are persons of sufficient responsibility:
and all bidders, guaranors, and suretcs distinct.
y notified that, on failure to enter into perform
the contracts for the service proposed for in the
cepted bids, their legal liabilities will be enforced
against them.
y. The contracts will he substantially in the forms
heretofore used in this Department, except in the
respects particularly mentioned in these nstrucons
and all railroad and steamboat routes the contrac-
tors will be required to deliver the ma Is into the post
offices at the ends of the And into all the inter-
mediate post offices not more than eighty rods from
the railroad or landing.
23. Present contractors, and persons known at
the Department, must, equally with others, procure
guaran!Ors and certificates Of their sufciency SUBJ
santiaIy in the forms above prescribed. The certf-
icates of suciency must be signed by postmaster,
or judge or clerk Of court of record.
Postmasters at the ends Of routes on which theys
think the present mode Of conveyance inadequates
will weigh the mail each trip for six successive week
on weekly routes, and three weeks other routes,
and report the result by the 10th April, 1854.
JAMES CAMPBELL,
43 LIT Postmaster General.
Post Office Department, January 8, 1854.
UNITED STATES MAIL.