The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-05-06

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 he desires to st-
percede it by different grade Of transportation.
8. Payments will be made for the service by COL
lection Of, drafts on, postmasers, otherwise,
after the expiration ofeach quarter-say in February,
May, August, and November.
10. The distances are given according 10 the best
information; but increased pay will he allowed
should they he greater than advertised f 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 for the transporta-
| ton of the mails with any person who shall have
entered into proposed to enter into, any combina-
ton to prevent the making Of any bid for mail
tract by any other person or persons, or who shall
have made any agreement, or shall have given
performed, promised to give or perform, any con-
seration whatever, to do, or not to do ANYTHING
whatever, in order to induce any other person or per-
sons not to bid for mail contract. Pal ticulaf atten
ton called to the 18th section Of the act of 1885,
| prohibiting combinations to prevent bidding.
IL. A bid received after time, viz: 9 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
| bid"
13 Bidders should, in all cases, first propose Tor
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 service, the other bids may he considered
if the alterations proposed recommended by the
rOstmasters and citizens interested, if they shall
appear manestly right and proper.
ii. There should he but one route bid for in a
proposal:
Is. The route, the service, the yearly pay, the
name and resdence Of the bidder, and those of each
member Of "a firm, where a company offers, should be
distinctly stated; also, the mode of conveyance If
higher mode than horseback be intended. The words
with due celebrity, certainty, and security inserted
to indicate the mode Of conveyance, will constitute
&" star bid.''
l6. The bid should he sent under seal, addressed
to the Second Assistant Postmaster General, super
scribcd {" Mail Proposals in the State Of -"
1t should be guaranteed, and the sufiicency Of the
guarantors certified, (see lorms,) and should be DIES
patched in time to be received by before g. m,
of the 10Th of April, 1854.
II. The contracts are to he executed and returned
to tie Department by before the LIST of July, 1854.
Is. Postmasers at Offices or near railroads, but
more than eighty rods from station, WILL mmedi-
ately after the 10Th of April next report their exact
distance from the nearest station, and how they are
otherwise supplied with the mail, to enable the Post
master General to direct a mail messenger supply
from the 1st Of July next.
49, Section Is of an act Of Congress, approved
March 3, lS45 provides that contracts for the
poration of the mail shall be let, in every case,
the lowest bidder, rendering sufficient guarantees for
Githtul performance, without other reference to the
mode OF such transportation than may be necessary
provide tor the due celerty certainty, and security
of such transportation" Under this law new
description Of bids has been received. 1t does not
specify Il 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 desig-
mated the books of the Department, ''sar bids,
and they will be construed providing for the entire
mail, houercr large and chateuer may be the mode Of
Conveyance necessaryto its celebrity, certainty and
security.
Such bids will therefore he accepted in preference
to higher bids for specific modes of conveyance on
routes where the lowest mode Of conveyance (that
is, on horscback) is known to be insufficient.
In all cases where the lowest G. ade Of service is
believed to be insufficient, the lowest bid will he
cepted, if duly guaranteed, in preference to "star'
or specific bid.
When the lowest bid is not a star bid, and speci-
hes either no mode Inadequate mode Of convey.
ance, it will not be accepted, but aside for spe-
chic bid proposing the necessary service.
When the bid does not specify mode Of convey
ance, also when 1t proposes to carry "accordng to
| the advertisement, but without such specification
twill be considered as proposal for horseback
vice.
20. A modification Of bid, in any Of its essen
tial terms, is tantamount to lid, and be
received as to interfere with regular competition
after the last hour set for receiving bids.
Il. POstmascrs to he careful not to certify
the suciency of guarantors sureties without know
ing that they are persons of sufficient responsibility
and all bidders guarantors, and surctics 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 on all railroad and steamboat routes the contrac-
tors will he required to deliver the Ills into the post
Offices at the ends of the and into all the inter-
mediate post Offices not than eighty rods from
the railroad landing.
23 Present contractors, and persons known at
the Department. must, equally with others, procure
guarantOrs and certificates Of their sulicency SUBJ
stantaly in the forms above prescribed. The certif-
cates OF suffcency must be signed by postmaster,
or judge 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 on 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.