Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-02-13
INSTRUCTIONS.
(As to regularly numbered routes

Embracing conditions 20 b. inc0rpordied an "a, mr.
tracts TO e erfehtthe Department moy dscg pr0u,r
1. Seven minutes allowed To each internra
ate Office, when not otherwise specified fg ASSERTING
the mails; but oa railroad and steamboat routes
tn is 10 lie more delay than is sufficient for an
exchange OF the mail bags.
2. On routes where the mode of conveyance admin.
Of II, the special agents OF the Department ,l,o
post office blanks mail bags, locks and keys, 10
be conveyed without extra charge.
3. On railroad and Steamboat lines, British and
Canada mails when offered to be convey ed with
out additional pay; also, the route agents Of De-
partment, for whose exclusive use while travelling
with the mails, commodious car, apartment in
the centre Of a car, properly lighted. warmed and
furnished ard adapted to the convsnent assortment
and due security of the same, 70 be provided BY
the contractor, under the direction Of the Depart
ment.
4. No pay will be made for trips not performed:
and for each of such missions not satisfactorily e,
planned three times the pay Of the trip NAV be
deducted For arrivals far behind time as 10 break
conneAion with depending mails, and sufficiently
excused, onefourth of the compensation for the trip
is subject to forfeiture Deduction may also be or
dered for a grade Of performance inferior 20 that
specified in the contract. Forrepeated denquencies
of the kind herein specified. enlarged penalties pro-
portioned 10 the nature thereof and the importance
of the mail, may be made
5. For leaving behind or throwing of the mails or
any portion of them for the admission Of passenger
or for being concerned in setting up or running an
express conveying commercial intelligence ahead u
the mail. quarters pay may be deducted.
o. Fines will lie imposed. unless the delinquency
be promptly and satisfactorily explained by certih-
Gates of postmasers, the sdavits Of other cred.
liable persons for failing TO arrive in contract time
for negecting TO take the mail from, or deliver IL
into, post office; suffering it lowing either to the
unsultableness Of the place or manner Of carrying
III TO be injured, destroyed robbed. lost and Cor
refusing, after demand, TO convey the mail fire.
qusntly as the contractor runs, is concerned in
running, coach, car, or steamboat q route.
a. ter M he tract
for repeated failures TO agreesbly 10 contract
for disobeying the post office laws. or the nstruc-
tons Of the Department; for refusing to discharge
a carrier when required by the department 20 DO SO:
for assigning the contract without the the
Postmaster General for running express aiore-
said; or for transporting persons or packages con-
geying mailable matter out of the mail.
s. The Postmaster General msy order an increase
Of service route by 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 curisil the
amount Of running time. lie may also order an
increase of speed, he allowing, within the restric-
lions of the law, pro rata increase of pay for the
additional stock or carriers IL any. The contractor
may, however in the case Of increase Of speed. re-.
nqush the contract by giving prompt notice to the
Department that he prefers doing TO carrying the
order into effect. The Postmaster General may also
curtail or discontinue the service, at pro rata de-
crease Of pay, allowing one months extra CON-
pensation on the amount dispensed with. whenever
in his opinion the public interests 90 uire the
same, in he desires to supersede it by differ
.nt grade of transportation.
2. Payments will lie made for the service by culec-
ten Of drafts postmasters, otherwise. after
the expiration of each quarter-say in February,
May, August. and November.
10. The distances are given according to the hest
inform alton; but no increased pay Will lie allowed
should they be greater than advertised If the points
70 be supplied be correctly stated. Bidders must in.
form the mseycs on this point
IL. The Postmaster General i prohibited by Law
frnp know itfrly
taton Of the mails with any person who shall have
entered into, proposed TO enter into, any combna
ton TO prevent the making OF any bid for mall
contract 10y any other person or persOns. or who
shall have made any agreement, or shall have given
Ut performed, or promised to give or perform. any
consideration whatever, 10 DO or not d do any
thing whatever, in order To induce any other person
or persons not TO bid for mail contract Particular
attention called to the 2Sth section of the act Of
1886, prohibiting combinations to prevent bidding.
II. A bid received after time, viz n IN the 10Th
April, 1874, or without the guaranty required by
law, or that combines several routes in one sum of
compensation, cannot be considered in competition
with regular proposal reasonable in amount.
b. 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 rgsadr bid be the lowest offered for the
advertised service the other bids may be considered
if the alterations proposed are recommended 10y the
postmasters and citizens interested, if they shall
appear manifestly right and proper.
IA. There should be but one route bid for in O
proposal.
Is. The route, the service the yearly pay. the
and residence of the bidder, and those Of esch
member of a firm, where a company offers, should
be distinctly stated, also the mode of conveyance,
a higher mode than horseback be intended. The
words with due celebrity, certainty, and security
inserted to indicate the mode Of conveyance will
constitute - star bd."
10. The bid should be sent under SEAL addressed
to the Second Assistant Postmaster General, super
scribed Mail Proposals in the State uf --"
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guarantors certified, (See FORMS and should be dis
patched in time TO be received by before A. NJ u
the 10th OF April, 1854.
IL. The contracts are to be executed and returned
to the Department by before the LIST Of July 1874
Is. Postmasters at Offices railroads, Tut
more than eighty rods from a station, will imme-
diately after the 10th of April next, report ther
exact distance from the near EFT station. and how
they otherwise supplied with the mall to enable
the Postmaster General 10 direct d mail messenger
supply from the LIST Of july next.
19. Section is of an act of Congress, approved
March 3, 1885, provides that contracts for the nsns
portion Of the mail shall lie let, in every case 10
the lowest bidder rendering sufficient GUARANTEES,
for faithful perform ance without other reference 70
the mode of such transportation than may h. neces
cary TO provide for the due lerity. certainty, aid
security of such ira nsportation." Under this law
new description OF Lids has been received. Ii does
not specify a mode Of conveyance, but engages 10
take the entire mail each trip with CELEBRITY certain
ty and security, using TIE terms of the law. These
bids are styled, from the manner in which they ere
designated on the books Of the Department, "ser
bids" end they will be construed providing Tor Tie
entire mail, hooecer large, and lchateud may N
the mode OF c0ureydHce necessary to insure as cehy,
certainty, dhd 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 (thsth
horseback is known to be insufficient. .
In all cases where the lowest grade Of service Is
believed TO be sufficient, the lowest bid will be scceP
ted, if duly guaranteed, in preference TO "staf or
specific bid.
When the lowest bid is not star bid. and specifies
either no mode an iaadeqrae mode of CONVEYANCE,
it will not be accepted but set aside for seclc A
proposing the necessary service.
When the bid does not specify q mode OF con-
veyance, also, when il proposes to carry sccoruhe
to the advertisement" but without such spechcauOn
it will be considered proposal for horseback Ell
vice. -,
20. A modification of bid. in any Of its essentAa
terms, is tantamount to q new bid. and cannot Ue
received. to interfere with regular competluob
after the last hour set for receiving bids. -.
81. Postmasters to be careful not 10 ceru.
the sufficiency Of guarantors or sureues Nhnou'
knowing that they persons Of sufficient rrsIOu
sibility and all bidders guarantors and surees Gre
distinctly notified that on failure TO enter mo
perform the contracts for the service proposed io -
the accepted bids their legal liabilities VIII DC e
forced against them.
g. The contracts will be substantially in the i0rus
heretofore used in this Department, except 10 .e
respects particularly mentioned In these insuI -.
tons: and on all railroad and steamboat routes VIC
contractors will be required 10 deliver tbe alIs
the post Offices at the ends OF the routes ana
the immediate post Offices not more than eighty iv'
from the railroad or landing. .h.
%. Present contractors and persons known ~ eus
Department, must equally with others P'c
guarantors and certificates of their sufhcieney su
stantially In the forms above escribed. The c'r>