The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-05-11

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 case he desires to
percede it BY different grade Of transportation.
g. 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.
TO- The distances are given according to the best
information; but increased pay will be allowed
should they be greater than advertised if the points
to he supplied be correctly stated. Bidders must in
form themselves on this point.
IL. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law
from knowingly making contract Tor the transposta
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, who shall
have made any agreement, or shall have given or
performed, or promised to give PERFORM any con-
sderaiion whatever, to do, not to do, ANYTHING
whatever in order to induce any other person per-
sons to bid for mail contract. Pa ticuar attcn-
ton is called to the 2Sth section of the of 1886,
prohibiting combinations to prevent bidding.
II. A bid received after time, viz: a. M. Of III
10Th Of April 1854, without the guarantee required
by law, or that combines several in one sum of
compensation, cannot be considered in competition
with regular proposal reasonable in amount.
The words ''with due celebrity, certainty and secu
rity," inserted here will constitute the bid 'stay
bid"
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 service, the other bids may lie considered
if the alterations proposed recommended by the
Eostnaste,s and citizens interested, if they shall
appear manilestly right and proper.
h., l,,,t. - far ina
proposal
IS The route the service, the yearly pay, the
name and sdence Of the bidder, and those of each
member of firm, where company oilers, should he
distinctly stated also, the mode of conveyance, II
higher mode than horseback he intended. The words
with due celebrity, certainty, and security, inserted
to Indicate the mode Of conveyance, will constitute
ss star bid.''
Is. The bid should be sent under seal, addressed
to the Second Assistant Postmaster General, super
scribed Mail Proposals in the State OF ;
1t should be guaranteed, and the sufiicency OF the
guarantors certified, (see forms,) and should he DIES
patched in time to he received by before y a. m,
of the 10Th Of April. 1854.
II. The contrac are he executed and returned
tt Department by before the LIST of July, 1854
Is. Posmasters at Offices near railroads, but
more than eighty rods from a stati'n, will, immedl-
atey 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 mail messenger supply
from the LIST of July next.
10. Section Is Of an act Of Congress, approved
March g. 1S45, provides that for the trans
portation of the mail shall be let, &c every case to
the lowest bidder, rendering sufficient guarantees for
faithful performance, without other reference to the
mode of such transportation than may be necessary to
provide for 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
styled, from the manner in which they are desg-
mated the books of the Department, ''star bids, "
and they will he construed as providing for the entire
mail, h,reuer large, and whaterr may be the mode Of
comcy,nce necessryto insure its certy, certainty and
security.
Such bids will therefore be accepted in preference
to high bids for specific modes Of conveyance on
routes where the lowest mode Of conveyance Chat
is, on horselack) is known to be insufficient.
In all cases where the lowest ade of service is
believed he insufficient, the lowest bid will I've ac-
cepted, if duly guaranteed, in preference to "star"
or specific bid.
When the lowest bid is not star bid, and speci-
fies either mode or inadequate mode Of convey
ance, it will not be accepted but aside for spe
cilic bid proposing the necessary service.
When the bid does not specify mode of convey
ance, also when it proposes to carry 'accOrding to
the advertisement bul without such specification
it will he considered proposal for horseback
vice.
20. 4 modification Of bid in any Of its essen
tal terms, tantanount to Lid, and cannot he
received, to interfere with regular competition
after the last hour set for receiving bids.
Fl. Postmasters are to be careful not to certify
the sulciency of guarantors surees without know
ing that they persons of sufficient responsibility
and all bidders, guaranors, and suretics distinct
y notified that, failure to into or perform
the contracts for the service proposed for in the ac-
cepted bids, their legal liabilities will be enforced
against them.
% The contracts will he substantially in the forms
heretofore used in this Department., except in the
respects particularly mentioned in these Instructions
and all railroad and steamboat the contrac
tors wb required deliver the Is into the post
Offices ut the ends of the and into all the inter-
mediae post Offices 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 suficiency sub
stanally in the forms above prescribed. The cert-
cates of suiciency must be signed by postmaster,
Judge clerk Of court of record.
Posmasters at the ends of routes on which they
think the present mode of conveyance inadequate,
will weg the mail each trip for six successive weeks
on weekly routes, and three weeks other routes,
and report the result by the 10th April, 1854.
JAMES CAMPBELL,
43 12t Postmaster General.
Post Office Department, January 8, 1854.
UNITED STATES MAIL.