The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-05-08

the service, at pro rata decrease Of pay, allowing one
months extra compensation on the amount dispensed
WITH whenever, in his opinion, the public interests
do not require the same, or in case he desires to su-
percede il by different grade Of transportation.
8. Payments will be made for the service by COL
lection Of or drafts on, postmasters, 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 il the points
to be supplied he correctly stated. Bidders in
form themselves on this point.
| IL. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law
from knowingly making contract for the transo'ta-
ton of the mails with any person who shall have
entered into or proposed to enter into, any cO,nbna-
ton to prevent the making of any bid for mail con-
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 con-
sderatiJn whatever, to do, not to do, ANYTHING
whatever, in order to induce any other person per-
sons not to bid for mail contract. Pa ticular alton
ton is called to the 18th section of the act of 1885,
prohibiting combinations to prevent bidding.
IL. bid received after time, viz: a. M, Of III
10Th of April, 1854 without the guarantee required
by law, or that combines several routes in Of
compensation, cannot be considered in competition
with regular proposal reasonable in amount.
The words "with due celebrity, certainty and
bd'
ID 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 regular bid be the lowest offered for the
advertised service, the other bids may he considered
if the alterations proposed recommended by the
r0smasters and citizens interested, or il they shall
appear manestly right and proper.
ii. There should be but route bid for in a
Is. The route, the service, the yearly pay, the
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member OF firm, where a company offers, should he
distinctly stated; also, the mode Of conveyance, If
higher mode than horseback he intended. The words
with due celebrity, certainty, and security inserted
to indicate the mode of conveyance, will constitute
=" star bid.''
l6 The bid should be sent under seal, addressed
to the Second Assistant Postmaster General, super
scrihed L" Mail Proposals in the State of -"
1t should be guaranteed, and the sufhcicncy OF the
guarantors certified, (see forms) and should Ike des
patched in time to be received by or before y, a. M,
Of the 10Th Of April, 1854
H. The contracts are to he executed and returned
to tie Department by before the LIST Of July, 1851
Is. Postmasters at Offices near railroads, but
more than eighty rods from n station, Will, immed-
ately after the 10Th of April next, report their exact
distance from the nearest station, and how they are
otherwise supplied with the MAIL to enable the Post.
master General direct mail messenger supply
from the lst of July next.
10. Section Is of an act Of Congress, approved
1910, PROVIDES tnlt contracts the
portatiOn Of the mail shall he let, in every case, to
the lowest bidder, rendering sufficient guarantees for
eithful performance without other reference to the
mode OF such transportation than may be necessary to
provide for the due celebrity, certainty, and security
Of such transportation" Under this law a
description Of bids has been received. 1t does not
specify mode Of conveyance, but engages to take
the entire mail each trip with celebrity, certainty and
security, using the terms OF the law These bids
styled, from the manner in which they are desig-
mated the books Of the Department. ''star bids :"
and they will be construed providing for the entire
mail, hoccrer large, and whaerr may be the mode Of
Conveyance necessaryto insure its crtty, certainty and
security.
Such bids will therefore he accepted in preference
to higher bids for specific modes OF conveyance on
routes where the lowest mode Of conveyance Chat
is, on horscback) is known to be insufficient
In all cases where the lowest g: ade of service is
believed to he Insufficient the lowest bid will be ac-
cepted, if duly guaranteed in preference to ''sar"
or specific bid.
| When the lowest bid is not a star bid, and speci-
flies either mode an inadequate mode Of convey
ance, it will not be accepted, but set aside for spe-
ci6c bid proposing the necessary service.
! When the bid does not specify a mode Of convey
ance, also when it proposes to carry ''accordns to
the advertisement bur without such specification
it will bc considered proposal for horseback SER
vice.
20. modification Of bid, in any Of its essen
u
received. interfere with regular competition
after the last hour set for receiving bids.
81. POstmasters are to be careful not to certify
the suliciency of guarantors sreties without know
ing that they persons of sufficient responsibility
and all bidders, guaranors, and suretics distinc
y notified that, failure enter into perform
the contracts for the service proposed for in the ac
cepted bids, their legal liabilities will be enforced
against them.
o. The contracts will be substantially in the forms
heretofore used in this Department, except in the
respects particularly mentioned in these instructions
and all railroad and steamboat the
tors will he required to deliver the ma lis into the post
Offices at the ends of the and into all the inter-
mediate post Offices not more than eighty rods from
the railroad or landing.
q. Present contractors, and persons known at
the Department, must, equally with others, procure
guaran,ors and certificates of their suicicncy sub
stantially in the forms above prescribed The certf-
cates of sufficiency must be signed by postmaster,
Judge or clerk Of court of record.
! Postmasters at the ends of routes which they
think the present mode Of conveyance inadequate,
will weigh the mail each trip tor successive weeks
on weekly routes, and three weeks other routes,
and report the result by the 10th April, 1854.
JAMES CAMPBELL,
43 ut Postmaster General.
Post Office Department, January 9, 1854.
UNITED STATES MAIL.