The Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.T. [i.e. N.M.]) 1851-1854, 1854-03-18


cases. He may propose different times Of arrival
and departure, provided no more running time is
asked, and no mail connexion prejudlced. He may
ask additional running time for tae trip during
specified number OF days in seasons Of very bad
roads but beyond these changes a proposal for
service differing from that called for by the ad-
vertisement will not be considered in competition
with regular bid reasonable in amount Where
a bid contains any such alterations, their disadvan-
tages will le estimated in comparing it with other
proposals.
10. There should be but one route bid for in
proposal
IA. The route, the service, the yearly pay, The
name and residence Of the bidder; and those Of
each member of firm, where company offers,
should be distinctly stated, also the mode OF CON-
veyance if higher mode than horseback be in
tended.
10 The bid should be sent under seal. address
ed 10 the second assistant Postmaster General, SUI
prescribed "Mail proposals in the State Of"
II should be guaranteed and the suficiency Of the
guarantars certified (see forms) and should be dis.
patched in time to be received by or before IA. Nj.
of the Sd April 1851.
l6. The contracts are 10 be executed and re.
turned to the Department by or before the lst of
July 1854.
II. Under the act Of March 3 1915, the routes
are to be let 10 the lowest bids rendering sufficient
guarantees, without other reference to the mode
Of transportation than may be necessary for the
due ceery, certainty and security Of such trans
poratOn. When the lowest bd proposes mode
of conveyance inadequate TO the due celerlty, GER
tainty and security Of the mails, it will not be ac-
cepted
lS. When the bid does not specify mode of
conveyance, also when it proposes TO carry 'ac-
cording to the advertisement but without such
specification. It will be considered as proposal
for horseback service
10 Since the passage of the act Of March 8,
1913, new description Of bid has been received.
II does not specify mode Of conveyance, but en-
cages 10 to take the entire mail each trip with
ceIerity, certainty and security, using the terms of
the law. These bids are styled, from the manner
in which they are designated on the books of the
Department, star bbs.' The experience Of the
Department enables it 10 lay down the following
rules. viz
When the mail op the route is not so large as
to require two horses coach conveyance, star
bid, if the lowest, will always be preferred to
the specific bid.
When the mails are Of such size and weight
as to render it necessary, in reference 70 them
alone, to provide two horse coach conveyance,
the specific bid, though the highest, for coach
service, if adrudgcd to be entirely sufficient for
the route, will be preferred to the star bid, in
case the difference is not such rs to interfere
with the policy of the law of 1915, which looks
TO a reduction in the cost Of transportation.
Exceptions, however, may be allowed where
the star bid is made by the owner of tho stock
now used on the route in the performance Of
coach service.
On routes of the highest class, where four
horse coach or steamboat transportation is re-
quired by the size and importance Of the mails,
and the specific bid is adjudged sufficient for
the route, the preference for the specific bid
will be if necessary, carried to creates extent
of difference than on the inferior coach routes.
90. A modification of bid, in any of its os-
sental terms, is tantamount to new bid, and
cannot be received, so as to interfere with re-
guar competition, after the last hour set for
receiving bids.
90. Postmasters are to be careful not to Ger.
tify the suficiency of guarantOrs or suretes
without knowing that they are persons of sulh-
cient responsibility; ard all bidders, guarantors
and sureties are distinctly notified that OH fai-
lure to enter into or to perform the contracts
for the service proposed for in the accepted
bids, their legal liabilities will be enforced a.
gain't them.
%. The contractors will be substantially in
the forms heretofore used in this Department,
except in the respects particularly mentioned
in these instructions; and on steamboat routes
tho contractors will be required to deliver the
mails into the post Offices at the ends of tho
routes and into all the immediate post Offices.
90. Present contractors and persons known
Mt the Department must, equally without others,
procure guarontors and certificates of their su
lfciency substantially in the forms above pres
crbed. The certificates of su0iciency must be
signed BY postmaster, or a judge, or clerk Of
q court ef record.
JANIS CAMPBELL,
Post Master General.
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT, OCTOBER l3, 1853.
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