The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-03-15
INSTRUCTIONS.

Gas to regularly numbered routes,)
Embracing conditions to be Incorporated IN tn
contracts to the tltent the Department ma,
deem proper.
L. Seven minutes are allowed to each inter
mediate office, when not otherwise specified TO
asserting the mails; but on railroad and steam
boat routes there is to be no more delay than is
sufficient for an exchange of the mail bags.
=. On routes where the mode of conveyance
admits of it,, the special agents of the Depart.
ment, also post Office blanks, mail bags, locks
and keys, are to be convened without extra
charge.
3. On railroad and steamboat lines, British
and Canada mails, when offered, are to be con-
veyed without additional pay; aiso, the raute
agents of the Department, for whose exclusive
use while travelling 18th the mails, a commodi
Gus car, or apartment in the centre of car prop.
erly lighted, warmed, aud furnished, and adj apt
ed to the convenient assortment and due secu-
rity of the same, is to be provided by the con.
tractor, under the direction of the Department.
A. No pay will be made for trips not perform.
ed and for each such omissions not sat'sfacter
lily explained 3tmes the pay ofthe trip may be
deducted. For arrivals so far behind time as to
break connexion with depending mails, and not
sufficiently excused, one fourth of tn compen-
sation for the trip is subject to forfeiture. De-
torrance inferior to that specified in the con-
tract. For repeated delinquencies of the kind
herein specified, enlarged penalties, proportioned
to the nature thereof and the importance of the
mall may be made.
5. For leaving behind or throwing off the
mails, or any portion Of them, for the admission
of passengers, or fer being concerned in setting
up or running express conveying commercial
intelligence ahead of the mail, a quarters pay
may be deducted
9. Fines will be imposed, unless the delin-
quency be promptly and satisfactorily explained
by certificates of posmasters, or The atfidavits Of
OF other cretitable persons, for falling to arrive
in contract time; for neglecting to take tile mail
from, or deliver it into, post office; for suffer-
ing it Owing either 10 the unsuitatleness ofthe
place or manner of carrying it) to be injured, de
stroyed, robbed, or lost; aud for refusing, after
demand, to convey the mail as frequently as the
contractor runs, or is Concerned IN running,
coach, car, or steamboat, Oh a route.
7. The Postmaster General may annul the
contract for repeated failures to run agreeably
to contract; for disobeying the Post Office laws,
or the instructions of the Department.; fJr re-
uSing to discharge carrier when required by
the Department To do SO; for assigning the con
tract without the assent of the Postmaster Gen.
eral; for running an express aforesaid; or for
transporting persons or packages conveying
inatlab!e matter out of the mail.
3. The Postmaster General NAV order an in
crease OF service on route by allowing therefor
a pro rata increase on the contract pay He
may change the schedule of arrivals and deplr-
lures, without increase Of pay, provided he does
not curtail The amount Of running time. He
may also order an increase of speed, he allowing
within the restrictions Of the law, pro rata
increase Of pay for the additional stSc1suR.l