The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1854-04-27
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Embracing conditions 10 De incorporated ~ the contracts
10 The ezt7t the Department nay dces proper.
j. Seven minutes are allowed to each intermediate
Office, when not otherwise specified, for asserting the
mails; but railroad and steamboat routes there is
to BE- delay than Is sufficient for an exchange
Of the mail bags.
/ 2. On where the mode Of CONVEYANCE admits
Of it the special agents of the Department, also post
Office blanks, mail bags, locks and keys, are to be
conveyed wiihou; extra charge.
). On railroad ant steamboat lines, British and
Canada mails, when offered are 10 be convened with
additional paw also, the agents % the De.
partnent, Tor whose exclusive while travelling
with the mails commodous car, or apartment, in The
centre Of car, properly lighted, warmed, and fur
nisbed and adapted the cOnvenen assortment and
due security of the same, is to he provided by the
contractor, under the direction of the Department
! 4. No pay will he made for trips not pei formed;
and for each of such omissions not satisfactorily ex
planned three times the pay OF the rip may be deduct
ed. For arrivals 50 far behind time to break
connexion with depending mas, and not sufficiently
excused, oneiOurh OF the compensation for The tim
Is subject TO forfeiture. Deduction will also be or
dcrcd for grade Of performance inferior to iba,
specified in the contract. For repeated denq,ences
of the kind herein specified, enlarged penalties pro-
porloned to the nature thereof and the Importance of
The mail, may be made.
! 5. For leaving behind, or throwing off the mails,
any portion of them, Tor the admission Of rasscn
gers, for being concerned in setting up or running
express conveying commercial intelligence ahead
OF the mail, quarters pay may be deducted.
8. Fines will be imposed, unless the DELINQUENCY
be promptly and satisfactorily explainedby certificates
of postmasters, the afdavits Of other creditaIl
persons, for falling to arrive in contract time; for
neg eciug to take the mail from, or deliver il into n
posioce for suffering j, lowing either to the IN
suableness of The place manner Of Carving O 10
be injured, destroyed, robbed, lost; and for rn-
sing after demand to convey The mail frequently as
the contractor runs, or s concerned IN running, a
coach, car, steamboat, on a route.
T. The Postmaster General may aunul the contract
for repeated failures to agreeably to Contract: for
disobcyins the Postofice laws the instructions OF
the Department. for refusing to discharge carrier
when required by the Department to do so: Tor as
signing the contract without the assent Of the POST
master General; for running express as afore said
or for transporting persons packages CONVEYING
ma liable matter ont OF the mail.
S. The Postmaster General may order an increase
OF service route 10y allowing therefor pro rata
increase on the contract. pay. He may change the
schedule Of arrivals and departures, without increase
OF pay, provided he does not Gu, tail the amount of
running time. Tie may also order increase OF speed
he allowing, within the restrictions Of the law. a pro
rata increase Of pay for the additional stock or car
ricrs, IT any. The contractor may, however in the
Of increase Of speed rcnqiish the contract by
giving prompt notice the Department that he pre-.
iers doing to carrying the order into effect. The
Postmaster General may also curtaiI or discontinue
the service at pro rata decrease Of paw allowing one
months extra compensation The amount dispensed
with, whenever, IN his opinion, the public interests
60 not require the same, be desires to SUI
peroede IL by different grade of transportation
g. Payments will be made for the service by COL
lection OF, or drafts on, postmasters or otherwise
alter the expiration OF each quartersay in February
May, August, and November.
10. The distances given according TO the best
information, bat no increased pay will be allowed
should they be greater than advertised il the points
to be supplied be correctly stated Bidders mus, in
form themselves on this point.
IL. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law
from knowingly making contract for the transpora
ton OF the mails with any person who shall have
entered INTO, or proposed TO enter nto any conbna.
ton To prevent the making Of any bid for mail con-
tract by any other person persons, or who shall
have made any agreement, shall have given or
reformed, or promised to give perform any con.
'ideratIon whatever, to do, not to do ANYTHING
whatever, in order to induce any other person or per-
IONS not TO bid for mail contract. Pal ticuar atten-
ion is called the 18th section of the act of 1886
prohibiting combinations TO prevent bidding.
II. A bid received after time, viz: a. M, of III
9th Of April, 1854, without the guarantee euuired
y law, or that combines several routes in onc sum Of
compensation, cannot be considered in competition
Nth regular proposal reasonable in amount.
= The words "with due CELEBRITY certainty and secu
w, inserted here, will constitute the bid ssfar