The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1854-02-09
INSTRUCTIONS
CAS- TO regularly numbered rop,es ,

INSTRUCTIONS,
CAS- to regularly numbered routes,)
Embracing conditions to be incorporated in the contract
t. the sIte'it the Department may deem proper
l. Seven minutes allowed to each iAtermcdia,,
office, when not otherwise specified, for asserting tn,
mails: bot railroad and steamboat routes there il
10 be delay than is sufficient for an exchang,
OF the mail bags.
2. On routes where the mode Of CONVEYANCE admit,
OF IL the special agents oi the Department, also most
office blanks, mail bugs, locks and KEYS, are to b.
conveyed without extra charge.
3. On railroad and steamboat lines, British an(
Canada mails, when offered are to be convened with
out additional pay; also, the route agents Of the De
partment, Tor whose exclusive Use while travelling
with the mails commodious car, apartment I'M The
centre OF Il car. properly lighted, warmed, and fur
nished, and adapted 10 the convenient assortment An,
due security OF the same, IS To he provided BY tie
contractor, under the direction of The Department.
! A. No pay VII, 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 far behind time as to break
connection vi it'll depending mails and not sufficiently
excused. one fourth Of the compensation for the trim
is subject 10 forfeiture. Deduction will also be or.
dcred for grade of performance inferior to tha,
specified in The contract. For repeated denquencies
Of the Kind herein spec fed, enlarged penalties pro.
portioned to the nature thereof and the importance OF
the mail, may be made.
5. For leaving behind, or throwing of the mails
any portion of them for the admission Of rassen-
gers, for being concerned in setting up or running
an express conveying commercial Intelligence ahead
Of the mail. quarters pay ruay he deducted.
=. Fines will be imposed, unless the Delinquency
be promptly and satisfactorily explained BY certificates
of postmasers or the affdayits of other creditablc
persons, for failing 10 arrive in contract time; for
negecing to take the mail from, deliver it into
pos,-ollice for suffering it Owing either to the I'M
suableness Of the place manner Of carving iD to
I've injured, destroyed, robbed, lcst and for rel-
sing, after demand, to convey the mail frequently as
the contractor runs, rs concerned IN running,
coach, car, steamboat, on route.
7. The Postmaster General may annul the contract
for repeated failures 10 agreeaby TO contract; for
disubrying the PoS,-otce laws, the Instructions of
the Department; for refusing 10 discharge carrier
when required bv the Department to do so: Tor as
signing the contract without The assent Of the Post
master General; Tor running express aforesaid;
OF Tor transporting persons or packages conveying
maahle matter ont OF the mail.
s. The Postmaster Gensr Il may order an increase
OF service a route by allowing therefor pro rata
Increase on the contract pay He may change the
schedule Of arrivals and departures without increase
Of paw, provided he docs not cmtail the amount Of
running time. He may also order increase Of speed
I've allowing, within the restrictions Of the law PRO
increase Of pay for the additional stock or car
iiers, If any. The contractor may, however, in the
of increase OF sreed, reiirqush the contract by
giving pro,npt notice to the Del armen that he pre-
Postmaster General may also curtaI or discontinue
the service, pro alta decrease of pay allowing one
month extra compensation on the amount dispensed
with, whenever, in his opinion, the public interests
do not require the same, in case he desires to IL
percete ii by "A different grade of TRANSFORMATION.
8. PAYMENTS will be made lor the service by col
lection of, or drafts on, iostmasters or Otherwise
after the expiration of each quavorsay in February
Nav, August, and November.
10. The distances are given according TO the hes,
iniormatiOn: bit no increased pay will lie allowed
should thry be greater than advertised il. the points
he supplied lie correctly stated. Bidders mus, in
form themselves on this point.
IL. The Postmaster General is prohibited hv law
from Knowingly making contract for TIE transpor,a-
tIon at the mails with any person who shai. have
entered into, proposed 10 cute, INTO any conbna-
ton to prevent The making Cf bid for Il mail con-
tract by any other person persons, who shall
have made any agreement, shall have given or
pcrurned or promised TO give rei form, any CON
sideraion whatever, or To do, rot 10 do, ANYTHING
Whatever IN order to induce any other person per-
not 10 bid for mail contract. Pa ticuar aicu-
ton is called to the 2s,h section Of the act Of 1886,
prohibiting combinations to prevent bidding.
y. \ bid received after time. viz 8 4. ~. Of the
l0a Of April. 1851, or 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.
ID Bidders should, in all cases, first propose for
service strictly according to the advertisement, and
then If hey DESIRE separately FOR diferen. service;
and if the rsguly bid be the loaest offered for the
advertised service, the other bids RAY he considered
if the alterations proposed recommended by the
postmasters ard citizens Interested, or If they shall
appear manlfestIy right and proper.
II. There should be but enc route hid for III
proposal
Is. The route, the service, the yearly Fay, the
name and residence Of the bidder, and those of each
member Of firm, where "A company offers, should he
dist al ho mode nf if
higher mode than horseback be intended. The words
with due CELEBRITY, certainty, and security, inserted
TO indicate the mode Of conveyance Will constitute
80 star bid"
Is. The bid should be sent under seal, addressed
In the Second Assistant Postmaster General supe'-
scrbed Mail Proposals in the State of -"
IL should be guaranteed, and the suficiency Of the
guarantors certified, (see forms) and should be des
patched in time TO be received by before 9, M.
OF the 10Th Of April, 1854.
u. The cont acts are be executed and returned
to Il Department by bcft re the LIST Of July, 1854
Is Postmasers Offices On near railroads, hut
more than eighty rods from stati'n, Will, ,nrnedi-
a,ely 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 direct a mail messenger supply
from the lst of July next.
10. Section Is of an &C; OF Congress, approved
March B. 1915, proyd that contracts for the trans
portaton Of the mail shall he let, d" in every case, to
the lowest bidder rendering sufficient guarantees for
iethiu performance, without other reference the
mode of such trans oraton than may be necessary to
provide for the due CELEBRITY, certainty, and security
of such transportation Under this law a new
description Of bids has been received. 1t does not
specify a mode Of conveyance, but engages tn take
the entire mail each trip with CELEBRITY, certainty and
security, using the terms ot the law These bids
styled, from the manner in which they desig-
mated the books Of the Department, ''Star bids, y
and they viii he construed providing for the entire
mail, ho,Dstr large, and mhater0 noy be the mode Of
vance ncessaryto insure It's ceery, certainty end
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 Chat
is, horseback) is known TO be insufficient.
In all cases where the lowest ga de Of service is
believed to be Insufficient, the lowest bid will he nc
cepted, il duly guaranteed, in preference to "star
or specific bid.
When the lowest bid is not a star bid. and speci-
fcs either mode Inadequate mode OF convey
ance, it will be accepted bn set aside for spc.
cltic bid proposing the necessary service.
When the bid does not specify mode OF convey.
ancP, also when proDoscs to carry "acCOrdIny tC