The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-03-08
INSTRUCTIONS,

GAS to regularly numbered routes,)
Embracing conditions to be incorporated IN the
contracts to the t1tcnt the Department may
deem proper.
|. Seven minutes are allowed to each inter.
mediate office, when not otherwise specified, for
asserting the mails; but 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 agents of the Depart
ment, also post office blanks, mail bags, locks
and keys, are to be convened without extra
charge.
3. 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 mails, 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-
rity Of the same, is to be provided by the con-
tractor, under the direction of the Department.
A. No pay will be made for trips not perform
ed; and for each of such omissions not satisfaction
lily explained 3 times the pay ofthe trip maybe
deducted For arrivals so far behind time as to
break come xion with depending mails, and not
sufficiently excused, one fourth of tn, compen-
sation for the trip is subject 10 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
herein specified, enlarged penalties, proportioned
to the nature 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 passengers, or for being concerned in setting
up or running an express conveying commercial
inteIlipence ahead of The mail a quarters nav
may be deducted
g. Fines will be imposed, unless the delin.
quency be promptly and satisfactorily explained
by certificates Of postmasters, or the afdavts Of
OF other creditable persons, for falling to arrive
in contract time; for neglecting to take the mail
from, or deliver it into, post Office; for suffer-
ing it lowing either TO the unsutableness ofthe
place or manner OF carrying it) to be injured, de
stroyed, robbed, or lost; and for refusing, after
demand, to convey the nai as frequently as the
contractor runs, or is concerned IN running, a
coach, car, or steamboat, on route
T. 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-
fusing to discharge carrier when required by
the Department to do SO; for assigning the con-
tract without the assent of the Postmaster Gen
eral; for running an express as aforesaid; or for
transporting persons or packages conveying
maIlabe matter out of the mail.
8. The Postmaster General may order an in
crease OF service on route by allowing therefor
a 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 time. He
NAV also order an increase Of speed, he allowins.
u,u;ihin tka restrictions Of the law, pro rata