The Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.T. [i.e. N.M.]) 1851-1854, 1854-04-01

substitute an inferior mode of supply in such
cases. He may propose different times of arrival
and departure, provided no more running time IS
asked, and no mail connexon prejudiced. He may
ask additional running time for tle trip during
a specified number of days in seasons Of very bad
roads but beyond these changes a proposal for
service differing from that called for by the ad-
vertsement will not be considered in competition
with a regular bid reasonable in amount Where
bid contains any such alterations their disadyan.
ages will be estimated in comparing it with other
proposals.
49, There should be but one route bid for in
proposal
A. The route. the service, the yearly pay, the
name and residence of the bidder and those of
each member of a firm, where company offers,
shoud be distinctly stated, also the mode of Com
veyance # higher mode than horseback be Ill
tended
l5 The bid should be sent unler seal address
ed 10 the second assistant Postmaster General, si-
prescribed email proposals in the State Of - .
II should be guar nled and the sullclency Of the
garantars certified (see formsl and should be dis.
patched in time to be received by or before A. Nj.
Of the Sd April 1851.
6 The contracts are TO be executed and re-.
Inrhed to the Department by or before the LIST Of
Jay ls5l.
H. Under the act Of March 3 1915. the routes
are to be let 10 the lowest bldslerdtring sufficient
guarantees without other reference 10 tie mode
# tran porta,Ion than may be necessary for the
due CELEBRITY, certainty and security Of such trans
porlatlon When the lowest bid proposes a mode
of conveyance inadequate to the due celerlly, GER
tainty and security Of the mails, il will not be ac
cepted.
lS, When the bid does not specify mode of
conveyance, also when il proposes to carry 'ac-
cording to the advertisement but without snch
specification. it will be considered as proposal
for horseback servire.
10 Since the passage of the act of March 3,
lSl5, a new description of bid has been received.
lit does not specify mode Of conveyance, but en-
cages TO to take the entire mail each trip with
ceerty, certainty 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 bids. The experience of the
Department enables il to lay down the following
rules. viz
When the mail on the route is not so large as
to require two-horses coach conveyance, a star
bid, if the lowest, will always be preferred to
the specific bid.
When the mails are of such size and weight
as to render it necessary, in reference 70 them
alone, to provide two horse coach conveyance,
the specific bid, though the highest, for coach
service, if adludged to be entirely sufficient foI
the route, will be preferred to the star bid, il
case the difference is not such as to interfere
with the policy of the law of lS45, which looks
TO reduction in the cost OF transportation
Exceptions, however, may be allowed where
the star bid is made by the owner of tho stock
now used on the route in the performance Di
coach service
On routes Of the highest class, where four.
horse coach or steamboat transportation is re.
quircd by the Sizeand importance of the mails
and the specific bid is adiudged sufficient fol
the route, the preference for the specific bic
will be if necessary, carried to creates exten
of difference than on the inferior coach routes
20. A modification of bid, in any of its es
sentlal terms, is tantamount to new bid, ant
cannot be received, so as to interfere with re
gar co"r?tition, after the last hour set fO
receiving bids,
20. Postmasters are to be careful not to Ger
tfy the sulhcency of guarantors or suretie
without knowing that they are persons of su0i
cient responsibility; ard all bidders, guarantOr
and sureties0rc distinctly notified that on fai
lure to enter into or to perform the contract
for the service proposed for in the accepte
bids, their legal liabilities will be enforced a
gainst them.
%. The contractors will be substantially i
the forms heretofore used in this Department
except in the respects particularly mcntionp
in these instructions; and on steamboat route
the contractors will be required to deliver tn
mails into the post Offices at the ends of til
rontes and into all the immediate post Offices.
%. Present contractors and persons know
at the Department must, equally without Others
procure guarontors and certificates of their su
iHcency substantially in the forms above pres
cribed. The certificates of suhcency must b
signed by post master, or Judge, or clerk U
a court Ell record.
JAMES CAMPBELL.
, Post Master General.
Posi- OFFlcE DEPARTMENT, OCTOBER 10, 1857