The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1854-03-02

by law or that combines several routes in OF
compensation, cannot be considered ia competitions |
with resular PROF osal rea, enable in ami unit.
Is. Bidders should, in all cases. first propose for
service strictly according advertisement, and
lhen IL they desire, separately for different service
and IL the regular bid be the lowest offered for the
advertised service. the other bids may he considered
IL the alterations proposed recommended by the
ostmasters and citizens interested If they shall
appear manifestly right and proper
II. There should be but one route bid for in a
proposal.
Is. The route, the service, the yearly pay, the
name aud residence of the bidder, and those Of each
member of firm, where "a company offers, should be
distinctly stated; also, the mode of conveyance, If
higher mode than horseback he intended. The words
"with due CELEBRITY, certainty, aud 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
scribed " Mail Proposals in the State of -"
1t should be guaranteed and the suficiency OF the
guarantors certified, (see forms) and should he DIES
patched in time 10 he received by or before 8, a. M,
Of the 10Th Of April, 1854.
II. The contracts arc To he executed and returned
to the Department by bof re the LIST Of July 1854
Is. Pcs,fnasters at Offices railroads, but
more than eighty rods from station, viii, imned-
atcy after the 10Th of April next, report their
distance from the station, and how they are
otherwise supplied with the mail, to enable the Post
master General TO direct mail messenger supply
| from the LIST OF July next.
10. Section Is of an act Of Congress, approved
March }, 1915, provides that contracts for the
poratiou Of the mail shall be let, in every case,
the lowest bidder, rendering sufficient guarantees for
iethful performance, without other reference to the
mode of such transportation than may be necessary
provide for the due ce!ery certainy, and security
of such transportation" Under this law new
description OF bids has been received. Ii 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
are STYLED, from the in which they desig-
mated on the books of the Department, ''StGr bids,
and they will bc construed providing Tor the entire
mall h9uerer large, aud uhatern may be the mode Of
conreyaace necessCTyo insure as ceerHy, ccnalnfy and
SscnTdy.
Such bids will therefore be accepted in preference
to higher bids for specific modes Of conveyance on
routes where the lowest mode of conveyance Chat
is, on horsebach) is known to be insufficient.
In all cases where the lowest &: nde OF service Is
believed TO be insufficient, the lowest bid will he &C
cepted if duly guaranteed, IN preference TO 'star
or specific bid.
VI hen the lowest bid is not star bid, and speci.
fes either mode inadequate mode Of convey
ance it will be accepted but set aside for spe-
cifc bid proposing the necessary service.
When the bid does not specify mode Of convey
ance, also when it proposes TO carry "according to
the advertisement" hut without such speciicail
il will be considered proposal for horseback
vice.
20. A modification OF d bid, in any Of its essen
tial terms, Is tanainount to Il It'd, and cannot be
received. interfere with regular competition
after the last hour for receiving bids.
2l. Pos,masers be careful not TO certIl,
the sucIency Ut guaramtors or suretes without know
ing that they persons Of sufficient responsibility
and all bidders, guarantOrs, and sureties distinct
" notified that, failure to enter into pei form
the contracts for the service proposed for in the ac
ccpted bids, their legal liabilities vii! be enforced
. against them.
%. The contracts will he substantially in the form.
heretofore used in this Department, except in the
respects particularly mentioned in these instructions
and on all railroad and steamboat the
+ tors will be required to deliver the mails into the pos
offices the ends of the and into nj! the inter
mediate post Offices than eighty rods from
the railroad landing
, 23 Present contractors, and persons known n
the Department, must equally with otheis, procur,
guarantors and certificates Of their sufciency sub
slantia'!y in the forms above prescribed The cerl
catcs Of sufiicency must he signed by postmaster
. or Judge clerk Of court of record.
POstn,asters the ends Of routes which the,
think the present mode OF conveyance inadequate
will weigh the mail each trip for successive week.
on weekly routes, and three weeks on other routes
aud report the result by The 10Th April, 1854.
JAMES CAMPBELE,
43 12t Postmaster General.
, Post Office Department, January 9, 1854.