The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-05-03

the service, at pro decrease Of pay, allowing
months extra compensation on the amount dispensed
with, whenever, in his opinion, the public interests
do not require the same in case he desires to
percede il by different grade Of transportation. 4
9. Payments will be made for the service by COL
lection Of, drafts on, postmasters, otherwise,
after the expiration Of each quartersay in February,
MAY, August, and November.
TO- The distances given according to the best
information; but no increased pay will be allowed
should they be greater than advertised if the points
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 trans o,ta-
ton of the mails with any person who shall have
entered into, proposed TO enter into, combna
ton prevent the making of any bid for mail
tract by any other person or persons, who shall
have made any agreement, or shall have given or
performed, or promised to give perform, any
sideraon whatever, TO do, to do, ANYTHING
whatever order induce any other person or per-
bid for mail contract. Pal ticulr atcn-
ton is called to the 2Sh section of the Of 1886,
prohibiting combinations to prevent bidding.
II. bid received after time, VIZ: 9 a. m. of III
10Th OF April 1884, without the guarantee required
by law, that combines several routes in one sum OF
compensation, cannot be considered in competition
with a regular proposal reasonable in amount.
The words ''wth due CELEBRITY, certainty and secu
llii.a 'N''''1 "'''' VIII '0'''''''e VIC 'u 80"
IL Bidders should, in all cases, first propose Tor
service strictly according to the advertisement, and
then if they desire, Separatoy for different service
and if the regular bid be the lowest offered for the
advertised service the other bids may be considered
# the alterations proposed ate recommended by the
loStmastess and citizens interested, If they shall
appear maniicstiy right aud proper.
II. There should be but route bid for in a
proposal.
hp hp 100 thn ria, tho
and residence of the bidder and those OF each
member oil "A firm, where company offers, should be
distinctly stated also, the mode of conveyance, il
higher mode than horseback lie intended The words
"with due CELEBRITY, certainty, and security, inserted
to Indicate the mode Of conveyance, will constitute
Sc star btd.''
10. The bid should be seat under seal, addressed
to the Second Assistant Postmaster General, super
scribed g Mail Proposals in the State of -
Ii should be guaranteed and the suliciencv of the
guarantors certified, (See orms) and should be DIES
patched in time to be received by or before 9, m,
Of the l0th of April, 1854.
IL. The Contracts are to he executed and returned
10 Department by before the lst Of July 1854
-. Postnasters at Offices railroads, but
more than eighty rods from 4 station, will, imncd-
atey after the 10Th Of April next, report their
distance from the nearest station, and how they
otherwise supplied with the mail, enable the Post
master General TO direct a mail messenger supply
! from he LIT of july next
-. Section Is of an &c, Of Congress, approved
March 3 1915, provides that contracts for the trans
portation Of the mail shall be let, in every case, to
the lowest bidder rendering sufficient guarantees for
icithiu performance, without other reference TO the
mode OF such transportation than may be necessary to
provide for the due celebrity, certainty, and security
81 such transportation. Under this law a
description of bris has been received. 1t does not
specify mode Of convey ance but engages To take
he entire mail each trip with celebrity, certainty and
security. using the terms OF the law. These bids
are styled, from the manner in which they are desg
mated on the books of the Department, 'star bids.'
and they viii be construed providing Tor the entire
man. houccr large, GaH waGtece may be the Diode Of
cDnreynnce neceSsryto It's ceicry certainty and
| security.
Such bids vii! therefore be accepted in preference
TO higher bids for specific modes Of conveyance on
routes where the lowest mode of conveyance Chat
is, on horseback) is known 10 be Insufficient.
In al! where the lowest g AIDE of service is
believed to be insufficient, the lowest bid will he ac-
ceped, If duly guaranteed, in preference TO 'star"
or specific bid.
When the lowest bid IL not star bid and spcci-
mes either no mode or an Inadequate mode of convey
ance, will not be accepted, but aside for spe-
clfic bid proposing the necessary service.
" hen tho hid docs specify a mod. of oonve,
ance, also when itproposes to carry ''accordng to
the advcrtsement,' but without such specification
It will be considered proposal ior horseback SER
vice.
20. modification of bid, in any Of its essen
tal terms, is tantanount q lid, and cannot be
received As TO interfere with regular competition
after The last hour set for receiving bids.
II. Postmastcrs are to be careful not 10 certify
the suciency Of Suarantors sureties without know
ing that they persons of sufficient responsibility
and all bIdder guarantors and suretics are distinct
y notified that failure to enter into or perform
the contracts for the service proposed for in the ac-
ceptod bids, their legal liabilities viii be enforced
against them.
p. The contracts will be substantially in tue forms
heretofore used in this Department, except in the
respects particular IN mentioned in these instructions
and on all railroad and steamboat routes the conirac-
tors will be required to deliver the ma Is into the post
Offices at the ends Of the routes and tp all the inter-
mediate post Offices more than eighty rods from
the railroad or landing.
%. Present contractors, ard persons known at
the Department, must, equally with others, procure
guaranois and certificates OF their suiilrcncy sub
stantaiiy in the forms above prescribed. The ccrtf-
cates OF suhcency must be signed by postmaster,
or Judge or clerk of court Of record.
Postmasters at the ends of routes on which they'
think The present mode Of conve, ance inaicduacs
VIII weigh the mail each trip for six successive week
on weekly routes, and three weeks on other routes
and report the result by The 10Th April. 1884
JAMES CAMPBELL,
~ LIT Postmaster General.
Post Office Department, January g, 1854.
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