Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-01-25

10 promptly and satisfactorily sxpaainsd by csrti
cstss Of postmastefs, the adavits Of other cred
liable persons for falling to arrive In contract time
ior neglecting to take the mail from, or deliver II
into, POST offce suffering 1t lowing either to the
IT. to be injured, destroyed robbed, lost and for
refusing, after demand, to convey the mail Is fire.
quenty as the contractor runs, or Is concerned In
running, q coach, car, or steamboat on a route.
8. The Postmaster General may annul the contract
or repeated natures to run agreesbly to contract
for disobeyng the post Office laws or the instruc.
lions Of the Department for refusing to discharge
carrier when required by the Department to do sos
for assigning the contract without the assent Of the
Postmaster General for running an express a sbre,
ssad or for transporting persons or packages con-
| veytng mailable matter out Of the mail
| Z. The Postmaster General may order an increase
CT service on route BY SHOWING therefor pro rata
| increase on the contract pay. He may change
the schedule Of arrivals and departures, without
increase of pay, provided he does not curtail the
| amount Of running time. He may also order an
increase Of speed, he allowing, within the restrc-
tons Of the law, apro rata increase of pay for the
additional stock or carriers, if any. The contractor
may, however, in the case of increase Of speed re-
nQuish the contract by giving prompt notice to the
Department that he prefers doing 30 to carrying the
order into effect. The Postmaster General may also
curtail or discontinue the service, at pre- rata de-
| crease Of pay, allowing one months extra COM
pensston on the amount dispensed with, whenever
In his opinion the public interests do not require the
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! ent grade of transportation.
g. Payments will be made for the service by colec.
tons from, or drafts on postmasters, or otherwise
after the expiration Of each quarter-say in Febru
airy, May, August and November.
g. The distances given according to the best
Information; but no increased pay will be allowed
should they be greater than advertised if the points
to be supplied be correctly stated Bidders must In.
form themselves on this point.
10. The Postmaster General Is prohibited by law
from knowingly making a contract for the transpor
tat,on of the mails with any person who shall have
entered into or propose to enter into any combine
ton to prevent the making of any bid for q mail
contract by any other person persons, or who
snail have made any agreement, or shall have given
or performed, or promised to give perform, any
consideration whatever, or to do or not 10 do any
thing whatever, in order to induce any other person
or persons not to bid for mail contract Particular
attention is called to the 2sth section of the act OF
1886, prohibiting combinations to prevent bidding.
IL. bid received after time, viz: 3 m ofthe 18th
Msy, 1885, or without the guaranty required by
law, or that combines several routes in one sum OF
compensation, cannot be considered in competition
with a regular proposal reasonable In amount.
IL. Bidders should. in all cases first propose for
service strictly according to the advertisement and
then, they desire, separately for different service
and if the regular bid be the lowest offered for the
advertised service the other bids may be considere
If the alterations proposed recommended by the
postmasters and citizens interested or IL they shall
appear manifestly right and proper.
Ii. 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 firm, where company offers, should
be distinctly stated also the mode of conveyance, Il
q higher mode than horseback be intended. The
words with due celebrity certainty, and security
inserted to indicate the mode Of conveyance, VIII
constitute =" star bid"
It, Bidders are requested to us., a. far as pract-
cable prin ed ron of pop sal furnish ID by the
department, % w1ite cut in ia l the FUN Of heir
bids, a. to re ain copies Of ihtm
No altered bids Gao BE- consii red, and no bids
once tu United can be withdrawn.
Each BID must be guaranteed BY tSo responsible
persona General qua antees cannct be admitted.
The bill should te scaled; euperscribed Mai
Proposals, State OF or Territory of -,'(.s tbs
case NAV bs,) addressed Second Assistant Post
master Gen.ral,' Contract Office aud seat ~ mail
t by, or to, sn agent, and postmssters viii not
enclose proposals, Tor letters of any knd in their
quarterly returns.
II. The contracts are to be executed and returned
to the Department by before the LIST of 1885,
but the service NUT b. C. nm fenced on the mail da
next after THAI date, whether the ntracts be tx.-
cuted or not No op 'sition for tran fers will b.
con ide:td until tie contracts executed in due
f1fm and received at the d'Eartm mt; and hen no
transfers will be allowed unlsss good and tEcient
reasons therefor are given to be L. ternined by the
department.
is. Section Is of an act Of Congress- approved
March l846 provides that contracts for the trans
portaton Of the mail shall be let in every case to
the lowest bidder rendering sufficient guarantees
for faithful performance without other reference to
the mode of such transportation than may be neces
sary 70 provide for the uue CELEBRITY certainty and
security of such ira nsportation." Under this law
rev description of bids has been received. 1t does
not specify mode of conveyance, but engages to
take tie entire mail each trip with CELEBRITY certain
ty 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
buds" and they will be construed providing for the
entire mail, hotoerer large, and chdterer may he
the mode Of conveyance accessory insure IT'S ceIeYiy
certainty, and security"
In all cases where the lowest grade of service 10
believed to be sufficient, the lowest bid will tie accep-
ted, duly guaranteed, in preference to STAR
specific bid.
When the lowest bid is not star bid, andspecifee
either no mode or an inadequate mode of conveyance
1t will not be accepted, but set aside for specific bid
proposing the necessary service.
When the bid does not specify a mode of con
veyance also, when it proposes to carry according
to the advertisement" but without such specification
1t will be considered as proposal for horseback
vice.
10. A modification of did, in any of its essential
terms, is tantamount to q new bid, and cannot be
received so as to interfere with regular competition
after the last hour set for receiving bids.
20. Postmasters to be careful not to certify
the suficiency of guarantors or sureties without
knowing that they persons OF sufficient respon-
sibility and all bidders guarantors and suretes
distinctly notified that failure to enter into or
perform the contracts for the service proposed for In
the accepted bids their legal liabilities will be
torred against them.
IL Present contractors and persons known at the
| Department, must, equally with others, procure
guarantora and certificates of their sufficency sub
stantially in the forms above prescribed. The
tincates OF suficiency must be signed by q postmas
ter at ne OF the plsc, before named, Judge of
| O court OF record.
| JAMES CAMPBELL.
PosT OFFICE DEPARTMENT, January 10, 1853
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