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

As to regularly numbered rOutcs)
Embracing conditions to be incorporated IN the contracts
TO the ertent the Department may deem proper
l. Seven minutes allowed to each intermediate
office, when not otherwise specified for asserting the
mails; but railroad and Steamboat routes there is
to be no more delay than is sufficient for an exchange
of the mail bags.
2. On routes where the mode of CONVEYANCE admits
of the special agents Of the Department. also post
office blanks, mail bags, locks and keys, are to be
conveyed without extra charge.
3. On railroad and steamboat lines, British and
Canada mails, when offered to be convened with
out additional pays also, the route agents Of the De.
partmen, Tor whose exclusive Use while TRAVELLING
with the mails commodious car, or apartment in the
centre OF car, properly lighted, warmed and fur.
nished, and adapted the convenient assortment and
due security of the same, is to be provided by the
Contractor, under the direction of the Department.
4. No pay wiltfbe made for trips not performed :
and tor each Of such omissions satisfactorily ex
three times the pay of the trip may be deduct
ed. For arrivals far behind time as to break
connexion with depending mails, and not sufficiently
excused, oneOurth Of the compensation for the trim
is subject to forfeiture. Deduction will also he Or
specified in the co",'"ct. For repeated dc,,uencies
Of the kind herein specified, enlarged penalties. pro-
portoned to the nature thereof and the importance Of
the mail, may be made. -.
s. For leaving behind, or throwing off the mails,
or any portion Of them, for the admission of passen-
gers, or for being concerned in setting up or running
an express conveying commercial intelligence ahead
of the mail. quarters pay may be deducted.
6. Fines will he imposed, unless the delinquency
be promptly and satisfactorily explained bv certificates
of postmasters, the afidavits of other creditabe
persons, for failing to arrive in contract time for
negecng to take the mail from, or deliver il into.
post-ofice for suffering it lowing either to the IN
suableness of the place manner of carving it TO
he injured, destroyed, robbed or lost and for ref;,
sing after demand, to convey the mail as frequently as
the contractor runs, or is concerned in running, a
coach, car, steamboat, on route.
Z. The Postmaster General may annul the contract
for repeated failures to agreeably to conract for
disobcying the Post-ofce laws, or the instructions OF
the Department; for refusing to discharge carrier
when required by the Department to do so; for as
signing the contract without the assent Of the Post.
master General; for running an express as aforesaid
OF Tor TRANSPORTING persons or packages conveying
"'''aDe matter ont of the mail.
o. ne POSTMASTER General may order an increase
service on route by allowing therefor pro rata
."hoJ..I. "" ."e contract pay. He may change the
schedule OF arrivals and departures, without increase
oil pay provided he does not Gun tail the amount Of
running time. 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
r'ers, II any. The contractor NAV, however in the
case OF increase of speed, relinqush the conc, hv
giving prompt notice to the Department that no n,c
ers dong SO to carrying the order into effect The
postmaster General may also curai or discontinue