The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-05-04

the SERVICE at pro rata decrease of pay, allowing
months extra compensation the amount dispensed
with, whenever, in his opinion, the public interests
do not require the same, in case he desires to
percede it by different grade of transportation.
9. Payments will be made for the service by COL
lection of, drafts on, pOstmasters, or otherwise,
after the expiration Of each quarter-say in February,
MAY, August, and November.
10. The distances are given according TO the best
information; but no increased pay will be allowed
should they be greater than advertised il the points
to be supplied he correctly stated. Bidders must in
form themselves on this point.
IL. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law
from knowingly making contract tor the transporta
ton of the mails with any person who shall have
entered into, proposed to enter into, any cOmbna
ton to prevent the making of any bid for mail con-
tract by any other person or persons, who shall
have made any agreement, or shall have given
performed, or promised to give perform, any
sieration whatever to do, or not to do anything
whatever, order to induce any other person per-
sons not bid for mail contract Pa tcular aten-
ton is called to the 18th section OF the act of 1886,
prohibiting combinations to prevent bidding.
II. A bid received after time, viz: a. M, Of tn
10Th of April, 1884, without the guarantee required
by law, that combines several routes in sum of
compensation, cannot be considered in competition
with regular proposal reasonable in amount.
*The words ''with due celebrity, certainty and
rity inserted here, will constitute the bid "sta,
ID 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 servce the other bids may he considered
if the alterations proposed are recommended by the
ostmasters and citizens interested, if they shall
appear manitestly right and proper
ii. There should be but route bid for in a
proposal.
Is. The route, the service, the yearly pay, the
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member OF firm, where company offers, should he
distinctly stated; also, the mode of conveyance If a
higher mode than horseback he intended. The words
"~ith due celebrity, certainty and security" inserted
to Indicate the mode OF conveyance, will constitute
&C star bd.''
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 suficency Of the
guarantors certified (see forms,) and should be DIES
patched in time to be received by before g. n.
of the 10Th Of April, 1854.
II. The contracts to he executed and returned
to tie Department by before the LIST of July, 1854
IS POstmaSers at Offices on or near railroads, but
more than eighty rods from a station, will, mmedi-
ateIy after the 10Th of April next report their exact
distance from the nearest station, and how they
otherwise supplied with the mail, to 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, 1845 provides that contracts for the
portation of the mail shall be let in every CASE
the lowest bidder, rendering sufficient guarantees or
uithful performance, without other reference to the
mode of such transportation than may be necessary to
provide tor the due celebrity, certainty, and security
OF such transportation" Under this law 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 the books of the Department, 'star bids,
and they will be construed providing for the entire
mail, ho,rerer large and uhaterr may be the mode Of
conryance necesSaryto insure its celerty, 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 Oha,
is, on horseback) is known to be insufficient.
In all cases where the lowest G. AIDE 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-
ics either no mode an inadequate mode of convey
ancc, it will not be accepted, but set aside for spe-
citic bid proposing the necessary service.
When the bid does not specify mode of convey
ancc, also when it proposes to carry 'according to
the advertisement but without such specification
it will be considered as proposal for horseback
vice.
20. modification Of bid, in any Of its essen
tal terms, is tantamoun to a lid, and cannot he
received. so as to interfere with regular competition
after the last hour set for receiving bids.
! 81. Postmasters are to be careful not to certify
the sufcIcncy of guar antors sretcs without know
ing that they persons of sufficient responsibility
and all bidders, guaranors, and suretcs distinct
ly notified that, failure to enter into perform
the contracts for the service proposed for in the
cepted bids, their legal liabilities will be enforced
against them.
p. The contracts will be substantially in the forms
heretofore used in this Department, except in the
respects particularly mentioned in these instructions
and all railroad and steamboat routes the conrac-
tors will be required to deliver the ma Is into the post
Offices ut the ends of the and into all the inter-
mediate post offices not more than eighty rods from
the railroad landing
%. Present contractors, and persons known at
the Department, must, equally with others, procure
guaranOrs and certificates of their sutlciency sub
stanaly in the forms above prescribed. The cerf-
icates of suiciency must be signed by postmaster
juI &c clerk of a court of record.
Posmastcrs at the ends of routes on which theys
think the present mode of conveyance inadcquatcs
will wesh the mail each trip for six successive week
weekly routes, and three weeks on other routes,
and report the result by the 10Th April, 1854.
JAMES CAMPBELL,
43 Ut Postmaster General
Post Office Department., January 9, 1854.
UNITED STATES MAIL.