The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-05-13
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CAS- to regularly numbered routes

AS to regularly numbered routes,)
Embracing conditions to be incorporated in the contracts
to the eItent the Department may deem proper.
l. Seven minutes are allowed to each intermediate
office, when not otherwise specified for asserting the
mails but railroad and steamboat routes there is
to be delay than is sufficient for an exchange
Of the mail bags.
2. On routes where the mode of conveyance admits
of it the special agents Of the Department, also post
office blanks, mail bags, locks and keys, are to be
| conveyed without extra charge.
3. On raiiroati and steamboat lines, British and
Canada mails, when offered, are to be conveyed with.
out additional pay also, the route agents of the De-
partment, for whose exclusive Use while TRAVELLING
with the mails commodous car, or apartment in the
centre OF a car, properly lighted, warmed and fur.
nished and adapted 10 the convenient assortment and
due security Of the same, is to lie provided by the
contractor, under the direction Of the Department.
4. No pay will be made for trips not performed; ;
and for each of such omissions not satisfactorily ex
planned three times the pay of the trip may be deduct
ed. For arrivals SO Car behind time as to break
connection with depending mails, and not sufficiently
excused, Onefourh Of the compensation for the trim
is subject to forfeiture. Deduction will also be Or
dered Tor Il grade Of performance inferior to tta,
siccrhed IN the contract. For repeated denuaencies
OF the kind herein specified, enlarged penalties, pro-
portoned to the nature thereof and the Importance OF
the mail, may be made.
.. For leaving behind, or throwing off the mails,
or any portion of them, for the admission of passen-
an express conveying commercial intelligence ahead
OF the Iah. quarters pay may he deducted
.. Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquency
be promptly and satisfactorily explained bv certificates
OF postmasers, the affidavits Of other credtable
persons, for failing to arrive in contract time: for
negecting to take the mail FROM or deliver into.
pos-ofice; for suffering it lowing either to the un-
suitabIeness of the place of Carving ia 10
he injured, destroyed robbed or lost; and for rei
sing, after demand, to convey the mail as frequently as
the contractor runs, is concerned in running, a
coach, car, steamboat, on a route.
Z. The Postmaster General may annul the contract
for repeated failures to agreeaby contract for
dsobcyng the Post-oice laws, 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 Of the Post
master General; for running express aforesaid
:" 10. transporting persons packages conveying
"''''aoe matter ont Of the mail.
o. ne Postmaster General may order an increase
., service on route by allowing therefor pro
on the contract pay. He may change the
scneou'e OF arrivals and departures without increase
OF pay, provided he does not cm tail the amount IF
running time. He may also order an Increase If sneeJ
he allowing, within the restrictions Of the ,,y ,ro
rata increase Of pay for the additional stock or c,r
riers, It any. The contractor NAV. however :, -.
case OF increase of speed relinquish the contac, h
giving prompt notice to the Department that he nre
iers doing 50 to carrying the order into effect RI.
POSTMASTER General may also curtail Of disccn,nae