Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-02-01


table persons, for falling to arrive In contract time
FOR neglecting 10 take the mail from. deliver II
into, post Office; suffering 1t lowing either to the
unsuitabeness OF the place or manner Of carrying
i to be injured, destroyed, robbed, lost and for
refusing, after demand to convey the mail as fire.
Quently as .he contractor runs or Is concerned in
running coach, car, or steamboat on q route.
6. The Postmaster General may snnul the contract
for repested failures TO agfeeably to contract;
for disobeying the post Office laws the instruc-
tons of the Department. for refusing to discharge
carrier when required by the Department to do 20;
for assigning the contract without the assent of the
Postmaster General; for running express afore
said; or for transporting persons packages con-
veying maiable matter OUT Of the mail.
Z. The Postmaster General may order an increase
Ct service on route by allowing 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 restric-
tons Of the law, pro rata increase Of pay for the
additional stock carriers, if any The contractor
may, however, in the of increase Of speed, 10
linquish the contract by giving prompt notice to the
Department that he prefers doing to carrying the
order into effect. The Postmaster General may also
curtai or discontinue the service, at pre- rata de-
crease Of pay, allowing one months extra COM
in his opinion the public interests do not require the
same, in he desires to supersede IL by differ.
emit grade of transportation. .E.
Payments will be made for the service by collec-
tons from, drafts Oh pOstmastsrs, or otherwise,
after the expiration of each quarter-say in Febru
ary, May, August, and November.
8. The distances are given according to the best
information; but no increased pay will be allowed
should they be greater than advertised, IL the point
TO b. supplied be correctly stated. Bidders must In.
forrI themselves on this point.
10. The Postmaster General Is prohibited by law
from knowingly making contract for the trsnspor
tation Of the mails with any person who shall have
entered into proposed to enter into, any combna
ton to prevent the making Of any bid for q mail
0an h. 9TH L.
shall have made any agreement, or shall have given
or performed, or promised to give or perform, any
confederation whatever, or to do not t. do any
thing whatever in order to induce any other person
or persons not to bid for msl contract. Particular
attention is called to the 2Sth section OF the act of
1885, rohibitipg combinations to prevent bidding
IL, bid received after time, viz: OF the 18th
May, 1855, without the guaranty required by
law. or that combines several routes il sum OF
compensation, cannot be considered in competition
WITH regular proposal reasonable in amount.
II. Bidders should, in all cases. first propose for
service strictly according to the advertisement and
them if they desire, separately for different service
and if the reg1r bid be the lowest offered for the
advertised service, the other bids may be considered
If the alterations proposed are recommended by the
postmasters and citizens interested, or If they shall
appear manifestly right and proper.
IL. There should be but one route bid for in 8
proposal
Ia. The route, the service, the yearly pay, tn.
name and residence Of the bidder, and those of each
member of q firm, where n company offers, should
be distinctly stated also the mode of conveyance,
higher mode than horse back be intended. The
words with due CELEBRITY, certainty, and security,
in serted to indicate the mode Of conveyance, will
constitute g star bad"
15 Bi1dr RS requested TO ns,, as far as pract!.
cable printed rrn Of pop sal furnished sy the
dep .rtmeDt TO white nat IN flu the fum Of heir
bdS, ard to retain c'pea OF hem
No alter bids can ba consd 5-ei. and no bids
ones sutni ted can he withdrawn.
EaclI BID must be guarant led By 30 responsible
aNyl1 q OR fnoS ha tFed
To- IL bid should e seaei; III 2ers .ribed ' Mai
Propo sals. State OF or Territory Of -,"(ss r. q
case b. addrs sstd 60 Second Assists Mt Pot
master G. n raj Contract Office ard SO L V mail
n ~. 70, agent. Snd Dostmaatsrs will not
nclo'e p-Opolas. Tor letters Il GGy kind their
quarterly returns.
L. The contracts are 10 be executed and returned
to the DEPARTMENT By before the LIST of August 1855
but the service u Ut mreEced On u" mail day
next after tina dste, whether ihe ntracts be exc
cute1 or not Mop cprsition .or tran fers VIII he
cons lie Cj until the contracts rxecut-d in due
fii Ii aud received at The rartinent ard hen 10
.racsfers will be allowed unl-s5 good and fuicent
reasons therefor given, to be determined by the
department.
Is. Section Is of an act of Congress, approved
March g 1S45 provides that contracts for the trans
portation Of the mail shall be let in every case tc
the lowest bidder rendering sufficient guarantee
Tor faithful performance, without other reference &c
the mode of such transportation than may be
sary to provide for the due celebrity, certainty ard
security of such ira Importation" Under this law
lew description of bids has been received II doe:
not specify mode Of conveyance, but engages &c
take the entire mail each trip with CELEBRITY certain
ty, and security using the terms Of the law. These
bids styled from the manner in which they are
designated on the books of the Department, sf0l
bs" and they will be construed providing for me
entire mail, AOwerer Ic7ye, and UhOtereT nlGy b
she ,os ~ CoRreydpcs necessary 10 ais cslgr.fy
csTtUtaSy, and security"
In all cases wher- the lowest grade of service 1,
believed TO be sufficient, the lowest bid will he accep
ted if duly guaranteed, in preference to star
specific bid.
When the lowest bid is not star bid, and specife
either mode InddsgUdts mode Of conveyance
it will not be accepted but set aside for specific BID
proposing the necessary service.
When the BID does not specify a mode Of ron
veyance, ALSO when ii proposes TO carry according
t. the advertisement Eut without such specification
Ii will be considered proposal for horseback ser
vice.
10. A modification OF bid IN any of its essentia
terms, is tantamount TO q new bid, and cannot bt
received, interfere with regular competition
after the last hour act for receiving bids.
20. Postmasters are to be careful not to certif,
the sufficency If guarautOrs sureties without
Knowing that they are persons Of sufficient respon
siblity and all bdlers guarantors, and surees arr
distinctly notified that failure to enter into OF
perform the contracts for the Service proposed for
the accepted bids their legal liabilities will be en-
forced against them.
Il. Present contractors and persons known at tht
Department, must, equally with others, procure
ga rantors and certificates OF their suficiency su
Htsntially in the forms above prescribed. The Ger
,if'ates of suthciency must be signed by pOstnas
ter, AZ one of the PLACES bsor' named judge o
l court # record.
| JAMES CAMPBELL.
Pos; N .ster General.
| Posr o.YlcE DEPARTMENT, January IL. 1850
| Jan Z5-Th4w