The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-05-10

the SERVICE at pro rata decrease Of pay, allowing one
months extra compensation the amount dispensed
with whenever in his opinion, the public interests
percede il by different grade of transportation.
8. 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.
10. The distances given according to the best
information; but no increased pay will be allowed
should they be greater than advertised If the points
to he supplied he correctly stated Bidders must in
form themselves this point.
IL. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law
from knowingly making contract for the transovta
ton of the mails with any person who shall have
entered into or proposed to enter into, any combina
ton to prevent the making Of any bid for mail
tract bv any other person persons, or who shall
have made any agreement, or shall have given or
performed, or promised to give or perform, any con-
seration whatever, or to do, not do, ANYTHING
whatever, in order to induce any other person per-
not to bid for mail contract. Pa ticular aitcn-
ton is called the 18th section Of the act Of 1885,
prohibiting combinations to prevent bidding.
II. bid received after time, viz: 9 u. m., Of tn
10Th Of April, 1851, without the guarantee require
by law, that combines several routes in one 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"
Is 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 he considered
1t the alterations proposed are recommended by the
rOstmaste,s and citizens interested, or If they shall
appear manifestIy right and proper.
IA. There should be but route bid for in a
proposal.
Is. The route, the service, the yearly pay, the
| oupIro 4 th,I, nd th,co nf nch
member of firm, where company offers, should he
distinctly stated; also, the mode of conveyance, il a
higher mode than horseback I've intended. The words
with due CELEBRITY, certainty, and security, inserted
to indicate the mode of conveyance, will constitute
IS star bd.''
l6. The bid should be sent under seal, addressed
to the Second Assistant Postmaster General, super
scribed Mail Proposals in the State OF -
II should be guaranteed, and the suilicency Of the
guarantors certified, (>ee forms,) and should be des
patched in time he received by before 9, a. m,
of the 10Th Of April, 1854.
| II. The contracts to he executed and returned
to tt Department by before the lst of July, 1854.
Is. Postmasters at Offices railroads, but
more than eighty rods from station, will, nmedl-
aelv 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 LIST of July next.
10. Section Is of an act Of Congress, approved
.,
poraton of the mail shall be let in every case,
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 transportaton.'' Under this law a 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 deslg
,h< k,<}c
and they will be construed providing for the entire
mail, ho,rerr large, and uaterr may be the mode Of
conveyance nccessaryto insure its eeley, certainty and
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, on horseback) is known to be insufficient.
In all cases where the lowest 9: ade of service is
believed to be insufficient, the lowest bid will be
ceped, if duly guaranteed, preference to S'star'
or specific bid.
When the lowest bid is not star bid, and speci-
fcs either no mode or inadequate mode of convey
ance Will NOT he acccrtcd bu, sc, aside for spe-
cihc bid proposing the necessary service.
! When the bid does not specify mode OF convey
ance, also when 1t proposes to carry "accordiny to
the advertisement but without such specification
it will be considered proposal for horseback
| vice.
20. A modification Of bid in any Of its essen
tial terms, is tantamount to bid, and cannot he
received, to interfere with regular competition
after the last hour set for receiving bids.
| Fl. Posnasters to be careful not to certify
the sulicency of guarantors s,mees without know
ing that they persons of sufficient responsibility
and all bidders, guarantors, and surecs arc distinct
ly notified that, failure to enter into perform
the for the service.proposed for in the
cepted bids, their legal liabilities will be enforced
against them.
p. 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 routes the conrac-
tors will be required deliver the ml into the post
Offices at the ends of the and into all the inter-
mediate post offices more than eighty rods from
the railroad or landing.
%. Present contractors, and persons known at
the Department, must, equally with others, procure
guaranOrs and certificates of their suiicrncy sub
stantiay in the forms above prescribed. The certif-
icates of suiciency must he signed by postmaster,
or Judge or clerk of a court of record
Postmasters at the ends Of routes on which they
think the present mode Of conveyance inadequate,
will weigh the mail each trip for six successive weeks
on weekly routes, and three weeks on other routes,
and report the result by the 10th April 1854.
i JAMES CAMPBELL,
43 LIT Postmaster General.
Post Office Department, January 9, 1854.