Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-03-28
General gaarrantses cannot be

sibie persons: General guarantees cannot be
admitted.
II. The. bid should be sealed /; superscribed
mail proposals, Stats of Virginia. y addressed
90 Second Assistant Postmaster General Con-
tract Office and sent by mail, not by, or to, an
agent, and postmasters will not enclose propo-
sails Cor Ietters;o any kind) in their quarterly
returns.
10. The contracts are TO be executed and re-
turned to the department by or before the LIST Of
july, 1855, but the service must be commenced
on the mail day next after that date, whether
the contracts be executed or not. No PROPOSE
ton TO-. transfers will be considered until the
contracts are executed in due form and received
at the department and then no transfers will
be allowed unless good and sufficient reasons
therefor are given, TO be determined by the de-
partment.
49, Postmastr RS at offices on or near railroads,
but more than eighty rods from a station, will,
Immediately after the 10th of April next, report
their exact distance from the nearest station, and
| how they otherwise supplied with the mail,
to enable the Postmaster General to direct a
mail messenger supply from the LIST of July
! next.
30. Section l8 of an actof Congress approved
| March, 3, S45, provides that contracts for the
TRANSPORTATION OF the mail shall be let 90 in eve
| nv case, to the lowest bidder rendering suftci-
ent guarantees for faithful performance, with
| out other reference to the mode of such trans
| pOrtatiOn than may be necessary to provide for
the due celebrity, certainty, and security Of such
transpOrtationS." Under this law new descrip-
ton of bids has been received. 1tdoes not specify
a 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 manner in which they are
designated on the bucks Of the department, "stdr
Lds,' and they will be construed as providing
for the entire mail, h0ceUer large, and 11hGteUeT
man be the mode Of conveyance necessary to insure
| jfSI ~ cplCyjfu cPrIIinfU. and SeEuFitU.''
In all cases where the lowest grade Of service
| is believed to be sufficient, the lowest bid will
be accepted, if duly guaranteed in preference
to ''stur'' or specific bid
| When the lowest bid is not star bid, and
specifies either no mode or an inadequate mode
OF conveyance, it will not be accepted, but set
asid" for specific bid proposing the necessary
service.
! When the biz does not specify mode OF con-
vcyance, also when it proposes to carry 'accor-
ding to the advertisements" but without such
specification, it will be considered proposal
| for horseback service.
| 81. a modification OF bid, i'll any OF its es-
sentiul terms, is tantumount to new bid, and
cannot be received, so as TO interfere with rcgu-
lar competition, after the last hour set for recei-
wing bids.
%. Postmasters are to be careful not to GER
tify the suffcicncy of guarrantOrs or sureties
without knowing that they are persons of sutti-
| ccnt responsibility; aud all bidders, guarantOrs
and surcticS are distinctly notified that, fail
ure to enter into or perform tho contracts for
| the service proposed for i'll the accepted bids
| their legal liabilities will be enforced againS
| them.
%. The contracts will be substantially in the
forms hrretofor, used i'll this department, except
in the respects particularly mentioned i'll thcst
instructions and on all railroad and steamboat
| routes the contractors will be required to deliver
the mails into the post offices ut the ends of til,
jt,tO II,o OF1i