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rned to the Department by or before the list Of

turned to the Department by or before the LIST Of
July 1854.
II. Under the act Of March 3. 1915, the routes
are to be lei TO the lowest bids rendering sufficient
guarantees, without other reference TO 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 celerly, GER
tainty and security oil the mails, it will not be ac
ceped.
is, When the bid does not specify mode Of
conveyance, also when it proposes to carry sac
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 3,
1S45, new description Of bid has been received,
1t does not specify mode Of conveyance, but en-
cages 10 to take The entire mail each trip with
celerity, 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 biis.' The experience Of the
Department enables it 10 lay down the following
rules, viz
When the mail on the route is not so large as
to require two-horses coach conveyance, a star
bid, il tho 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 adludgOd to be entirely sufficient for
the route, will be preferred to the star bid, in
case the difference is not such as to interfere
with the policy of the law Of lS45, which looks
10 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 uf
coach service,
On routes Of the highest class, where four
horse coach or steamboat transportation is re-
quired by the sizeand importance Of the mails,
and the specific bid is adjudged sufficient for
the route, the preference for the specific bid
will be Ii necessary, carried to creates extent
of difference than on the inferior coach routes.
%. a modification Of bid, in any of its os-
sentiaI terms, is tantamount to u new bid, and
cannot be received, so rs to interfere with re-
gular competition, after the last hour set fol
receiving bids.
co. Postmasters are to be careful not to Ger,
tify the sulEciency of guarantors or sureties
without knowing that they are persons Of suf-
cient responsibility; ardall bidders, guarantors
and suretics arc distinctly notified that on q fa-
lure to enter into or to perform the contracts
for the service proposed for in the accepted
bids, their legal liabilities wall be enforced a.
gainst them.
%. Tho 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
the contractors will be required to deliver tho
mails into the post Offices at the ends Of tho
routes and into all the immediate post Offices.
%. Present contractors and persons known
at the Department must, equally without others,
procure guarontors and certificates of their su-
lGciency substantially in the forms above pres
cribed. The certificates of sulIicency must be
signed by a post master, or judge, or clerk of
a court Of record.
JANIS CAMPBELL,
Post Master General.
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTNsyr, OCTOBER l3, 1858.
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