Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-12-06
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Posr OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Nov %, 1853.
DROPOSALS FOR CARRYING THE mails
ofthe United ssatss from the 18th day Of Feb
rurY, 1855, to the 10th day Of June, 1855. inclu-
slye, on the following route in the STATE OF
ALABAMA, and In the tine and manner speci-
fed, will be received at the Contract Office Of the
Post Once Department, In the city Of Washing
ton 1m:il p m, Of the 10th January, 1885, to Be
decided on the next day:
Deposit Butler Springs, Cokervilie, Clai-
borne and GainestOwn, to Mobile, 266 miles
e.. Vile daily, and Ok Tintialah, Hickory Grove
Sandy Ridge, and Kirkville TIL weekly; the
transportation between Montgomery and
Claiborne to be performed I'm a double line
Of four-horse coaches, with the privilege,
when the roads are bad, Of using four horse
horse mail wagons, Of sudicient capacity to
carry whatever mail may be daily received
at Montgomery or Claiborne; and between
Claiborne and Mobile In such classes Of
Steamboats, as may be suitable In speed, size
and structure, FOR the regular performance
Of the service at al seasons Of the year, to
be under the entire and exclusive control Of
the accepted bidder or bidders, so that no
nresches Of cenne1ion shall occur either way
by reason of any other person or persons hav-
ing hight to regulate or interfere with the
arrivals and departures Of the said steam
boats
Leave Montgomery daily at4Xpm
Arrive at Mobile In % hours, by Ak am
Leave Mobile daily at IL a. m, from LIST Mo-
vember to lst June, and at a m residue Of
inc year
Arrive in Montgomery In % hours, by II m,
from 1st November to LIST June, and by7P
m residue Of the year.
NOTE.
No pay will he made for trips not performed,
and for each Of such omissions not satisfactorily
explained three times the pay OF the trip NAV be
deducted For arrivals so far behind time as to
break connexion with depending mails, and not
sud3Etently excused, one fourth Of the compensa-
tion for the thp is subject to forfeiture. Fines
will be imposed, unless the delinquency be
promptly ard satisfactorily explained by certif-
Gates Of postmasters the aidavfts Of other cred
liable persons for negecting to take the mail from
or Into post office for suffering 1t to be injured,
destroyed, robbed lost; and FOR refusing, after
demand, to convey the mail as frequently as the
contractor runs, or is concerned In running, We
hicles on the route. The Postmas ter General may
annul the contract for repeated failures to run
agreeablyt 10 contract, or FOR dsobeying the post
Office laws OF instructions Of the department. The
Postmaster General may alter the schedule He
may also order an Increase Of service by allowing
therefor pro yato Increase on the contract pay.
He may also curtail or discontinue the service In
whole or In part, al py1 rata decrease Of pay, he
allow one months exha compensation on the
amount Of service dispensed with The bids
master General, superscrfbed email Proposals
for Aiabama.n The contracts to be executed and
returned to the department by or before the 18th
Of February, 1855. For further particulars as to
conditions to be Incorporated In the contracts bid
ders may see pamphlet advertisement for convey.
Ing the mails In Alabama. Mississippi, Arkansas,
Louisiana and Texas, Of 1884
JAMES CAMPBELL,
nov 04-d4w .-. Postmaster General