The Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.T. [i.e. N.M.]) 1851-1854, 1854-02-18


are 10 be conveyed without extra charge.
3. No pay will be made for trips not performed |;
and for each Of such omissions mol satisfactorily
explained three times the pay of the trip may be
deducted. For arrivals so far behind time as to
break connection with depending mails, and not
sufficiently excused, one-fourth Of the compensa.
ton for the trip is subject TO forfeiture. Deluc-
tioh may also be ordered for grade Of perform.
ance inferior to that srcriied in the contract For
repeated delinquencies Of the kind herein specified
enlarged penalties, proportioned 10 the nature
thereof and the Importance of the mail, my be
made.
4. FOrleaving behind or throwing OF The mails
or any portion Of them for the admission of pas
ssngers, or for beng concerned in setting up or
running an express conveying commercial inlelli-
gence ahead of the mail, quarters pay may be
deducted.
D. Fines will be imposed unless The delinquency
be promptly and satisfactorily explained by Ger.
ttcates of pqstmasters or the aiidauis o, other
creditabo persons, for failing to arrive in contract
time for negecting TO take the mail from, or de-
liver II into post Office for suffering il (elther
owing TO the unsuitabeness of the place or manner
of carrying il) TO be injured, destroyed, robbed or
lost and for refusing, after demand, to convey the
mail as frequently as the contractor runs or is con-
cerned in running coach or steamboat on a
route.
8, The Postmaster general may annul the con-
tract for repeated failures to run ugreeably TO
contract; for disobeying the post Office laws, or
the instructions of the Department; Tor refusing to
discharge carrier when required by the Depart.
ment TO do so f; for assigning the contract wqhOut
the assent of the Postmaster General for running
an express as aforesaid; or for transporting per-
sons or packages conveying mailable matter out Of
The mail.
I. The Postmaster general may order an in
crease of service on roule by allowing therefor
pro rata increase on the contract pay, lie emay
also order an increase Of pay for the additional
stock or carriers ii any, The contractor may.
however, in the case Of increase Of speed, REIN.
quish The contract by giving prompt notice 10 The
Department that he prefers doing so to carrying
the order into effect The Postmaster Genera
may also curtall or dis ontlnue the service at pro
rata decrease Of pay il he allow one months
extra compensation on the amount dispensed with,
whenever IN his opinion the public interests do not
require the same, or IL case he desires to super ee
il by different grade OF transportation. lie may
also change the times Of arrival and departure
(provded he does not cuftall the running line)
without increasing the p'y,
3. Payments will be made for The service
through drafts on posnasters, or otherwise afer
the expiration Of each quarter-say in February,
May, August and November.
.. The distances are given according to the
best nformaion; but no increased pay will be
allowed should they be greater than advertised, If
the points 10 be supplied he correctly stated
~. The Postmaster General is prohibited by
law from knowingly making contract for the
transportation Of the mails with any person who
gHn hat int oil la ami tn
any combination 10 prevent the making Of any
bid for mail contract by any other person or
persons, or who shall have made any agreement,
or shall have gyeR or performed, or promised to
give or perform any consideration whatever, Or to
do or not TO do any thing Whatever, in order to In
dnce any other person or persons not TO bid for
mail contract. Particular attention is called to the
18th section Of the act Of 1896, prohibiting combi-
nations 10 prevent bidding.
II A bid received after time, VIZ. A NJ. Of
the 3d April 1854 or without the guaranty re-
qured by law, or th combines several routes IN
one sum of compensation, cannot be considered in
competition with a regular proposal reasonable in
amount.
II, A bidder may offer, where the tran3pora-
tinn called for by the advertisement, Is dillcdlt or
impractlcobIe at certain seasons TO substitute an
inferior mode OF conveyance, or 10 inlerlnt SER
wee specified number OF days, weeks Or months.
He may propose to omit an inaccessible Office, or
one not on the stage or railroad or at a steamboat
landing, as the case may be or he may offer 10
substitute an inferior mode Of supply in such
cases He may propose different times OF arrival
and departure, provided no more running time Is
asked aud no mail connexion preudlced. He may
ask additional running time for te trip during
specified number OF days in seasons Of very bad
roads but beyond these changes proposal for
service differing from that called for by the adj
,ertsement will not be considered in competition
with a regular bid reasonable in amount Where
bid contains rny such alterations, Their disadyan-
tages will be estimated In comparing ii with other
proposals.
l3. There should be but one route bid for in a
proposal
ii. 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 III
tended.
Is. The bid should be sent under seal, address.
ed 10 the second assistant Postmaster General, SUI
prescribed EMAIL proposals in the State of---
It should be guaranteed and the suiIiciency OF The
gnarantars certified (see forms) and should be dis.
patched in time 10 be received by or before "a. Nj.
OF the Sd April 1854.
l6. The contracts are TO be executed and re.
turned to the Department by or before the lst of
July 1854
II. Under the act Of March 1875 the routes
are to be let 10 the lowest bids rendering sufficient
guarantees, without other reference 10 the mode
Of transportation than may be necessary for the
due celebrity, certainty and security of such trans
portation When The lowest bid proposes mode
of conveyance inadequate to the due celerliy, GER
tanty and security of the mails, it will not be ac-
copied
Is. When the bid does not specify mode of
conveyance, also when il proposes TO carry 'ac-
cording to the advertisement but without such
specification. II will be considered as proposal
for horseback servire.
10 Since the passage Of the act of March 3,
1919, new description Of bid has been received
II does not specify mode Of conveyance, bnt en-.
gages 10 TO take the entire mail each "trip with
ceeriiy, certainty and security. using the terms of
the law, These bids are styled, from the manner
in which they are designated on ihe books Of The
Department s'ir biis. The experience Of the
Department enables it 10 lay dqwn ihe following
rules viz
WHOM the mail on thoroute II not 80 large Ms