Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-06
INSTRUCTIONS,
CAS- to regularly numbered routes.)


tracts to Ae eztenths Department may deem proper
l. Seven minutes are allowed to each intermedi.
ate Office when not otherwise specified for asserting
the mails but railroad and steamboat routes
there is to be delay than is sufficient for
exchange of the mail bags.
e. On routes where the mode of conveyance admits
of it. the special agents Of the Department, also
post Office blanks mail bags, locks aNS keys, to
be conveyed without extra charge.
8. On railroad and steamboat lineSS British and
Canada mails, when offered to be conveyed with
out additional pay also the route agents of the De
partment for whose exclusive use while travelling
with the mails, commOdious car, apartment in |
the centre of q Cur, properly lighted, warmed and
furnished ard adapted to the assortment
and due security OF the same, il to he provided by
the contractor under the direction Of the Depart
meut
l. No pay will be made for trips not performed |
and for each of such omissions not satisfactorily
pained three times the pay of the trip may be |
deducted For arrivals far behind time as to break
connection with depending mails. and Internationally
excused, fourth of the compensation for the trip
is subject to forfsiture Deduction may also be or
dered for q grade Of performance inferior to that
specified in the contract FOrrepeated delinquencies
Of the kind herein specified enlarged penalties, pro-
portioned to the nature thereof and the importance
of the mall may be made.
s. For leaving behind or throwing off the mails or
portion of them for the admission of passengers
for being concerned in setting up or running an
express conveying commercial intelligence ahead of
the mail, a quarters pay may be deducted.
g. Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquency
be promptly and satisfactorily explained by certif
Gates Of postmasters The afdavits of other cred
liable persens for falling to arrive in contract time
for neglecting to take the mail from, deliver 1t
into, post Office; suffering it lowing either to the
unsuitableness of the place or manner OF carrying
it, to be injured, destroyed robbed lost; and for
refusing, after demand, to convey the mail fire.
quently the contractor runs, is concerned in
running coach, car. or steamboat Oh route.
Z. The Postmaster General may annul thee contract
for repeated failures to agIeeably to contract
for disobeying the post Office laws the instruc.
tons of the Department; for refusing to discharge
carrier when required by the Department to do so
for assigning the contract without the assent of the
Postmaster General; for running express afore
said: or for Transporting persons or packages con-
veying maable matter out of the mail.
8. The Postmaste General msy order 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 curtail the
amount of running time. He may also order an
| increase of speed, he allowing within the restric
tons of the law apro rata increase Of pay for the
additional stock or carriers if any The contractor
may, however, in the case OF increase OF speed,
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
curta or discontinue the service, at pro rata de-
crease Of pay, allowing one months extra COM
pensation on the amount dispensed with, whenever
in his opinion the public interests do not require the
same, or in he desires to superssde it by differ
| emit grade of transportation.
g. Payments will be made for the service by collec
ton Of or drafts on postnasters otherwise after
the expiration of each quarter-say in February,
| May, August, and November.
10. The distances given according to the best
| information; but no increased pay will be allowed
should they be greater than advertised If the point.
to be supplied be correctly stated. Bidders must in
| form themselves on this point.
| IL. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law
| from knowingly making contract for the transpor
tation of the mails with any person who shall have
entered into, proposed to enter into any combina
| ton to 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 given
| or performed, or promised to give perform, any
| consideration whatever, or to do not t, do any
thing whatever in order to induce any other person
persons not TO bid for mail contract Particular
attention s called to the 2Sth section of the act of
1886, prohibiting combinations to prevent bidding.
II. bid received after time, viz: m of the 10th
April, 1854, or without the gu .ranty required by
law. or that combines several routes in sum of
compensation, cannot be considered in competition
| with regular proposal reasonable In amount
IL. Bidders should, in all cases first propose for
service strictly according to the advertisement and
them if they desire, separately for different service
and if the regular bid be the lowest offered for the
advertised service, the other bids may be considered
If the alterations proposed are recommended by the
postmasters and citizens interested, if they shall
i appear manfestly right and proper.
| IA. There should be but one route bid for in q
| proposal.
| Is. The route, the service, the yearly pay the
name and residence Of the bidder, and those Of each
| member OF firm. where "A company offers, should
be distinctly stated, also the mode OF conveyance il
higher mode than horseback be intended. The
words with due celebrity, certainty, and security"
| inserted to indicate the mode Of conveyance, Will
constitute a =" star Mi"
16 The bid should be sent under seal, addressed
to the Second Assistant Postmaster General, super
| scribed " Mail Propose Is in the State of --.n
1t should be guaranteed, and the suiciency of the
guarantors certified, (see forns and should be dis
patched in time to be received by before A. NJ. OF
the 10th of April, 1854
Tl.p ntror 70 no Yfolo nd nod
to the Department by before the LIST of july 1854
49, Postnasters ut Offices near railroads, but
| more than eighty rods from a station will imme-
diatey after the 10th of April Eext. report their
| exact distance from the nearest station, and how
they otherwise supplied with the mall to enable
| the Postmaster General to direct mail messenger
| supply from the LIST of July next.
10. Section Is Of an act Of Congress, approved
March g. 1885, provides that contracts for the trans
portion of the mail shall be let, g in every to
the lowest bidder rendering sufficient guarantees,
tor faithful performance without other reference to
| the mode of such transportation than may be
to provide for the due celebrity certainty and
| security OF such transportation" Under this law
description of bids has been received. 1t does
not specify a mode of conveyance, but engages to
take the entire mail each trip with celebrity certain
y. 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
tdS and they will lie construed providing for the
entire mail, hoioectr large, and achdterer may be
the mode OF conreyance necessary to insure its CELEBRITY
Such bids will, therefore, be accepted in preference
| to higher bids for specific modes of conveyance on
routes where the lowest mode of conveyance that is
| on horse back } is known to be insufficient.
In all cases where the lowest grade Of service 10
believed to be sufficient, the lowest bid will te accep
ted if duly guaranteed, in preference to star"
specific bid.
When the lowest bid is not star bid and specifies
either no mode inadequate mode of conveyance.
it will not be accepted but set aside for specific bid
proposing the necessary service.
When the bid does not specify mode Of con.
veyance also, when it proposes to carry according
to the advertisement but without such specification
1t will be considered g proposal for horseback
| vice.
20. A modification of bid in any of its essential
terms, is tantamount to a new bid, and cannot be
received to interfere with regular competition,
| efter the last hour set for receiving bids
81 Postmasters are to be careful not to certify
| the sufcieney Of guarantors or sureties without
knowing that they are persons of sufficient respon-
sbty and all bidders, guarantors, and sureties are
distinctly notified that failure to enter into or
perform the contracts for the service proposed for
the accepted bids their legal liabilities will be en-
| forced against them.
e. The contracts will be substantially in the forms
heretofore used in this Department, except in the
tons and on all railroad and steamboat routes the
contractors will be required to deliver the mails into
the post offices at the ends of the routes and INTO all
the immediate post Offices not more than eighty rods
from the railroad or landing
%. Present contractors and persons known at the
| Department, must, equally with others, procure
guarAntors and certificates Of their suficency sub
stantialIy in the forms above prescribed The GER
tifcates Of sufciency must be signed by postmas.