Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-04-18
sibie persons.. GeneEal gnarrantees cannot Be

sibie persons. General guarantees cannot be
admitted. a
mail proposals, Stnte of Virginia" addressed,
Second Assistant Postmaster General. Con-
tract Office, and sent by mail, not by, or to, an
agent, and postmasters will not enclose. propO-
sails Tor letters of any kindl 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 transfers will
be allowed unless good and sufficient reasons
therefor are given, to be determined BY the de-
Partment
10. Postmast 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 muil,
to euabIo the Postmaster General to direct a
aiI-messenger supply from the lst of July
next.
90 Section Is of an OF Congress approved
! March, 3, 845, provides that contracts for the
transportation of the mail shall be let, {" in eve
nv case, to the lowest bidder rendering suffic-
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
transportutions" Under this law new descrip-
ton OF bids has been received. does not specify
a mode or conveyance, but engages to take the
entire mail each trip with celebrity, certainty aud
security, nsng the terms OF the law. These bids
are STYLED, from the manner in which they are
designated on the bucks of the department, "StGI
| bids" and they will be construed as providing
for the entire mail h01CeUeT large, and 1olGteue1
may be the mode Of Conveyance necessary to insure
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| In all cases where the lowest grade Of service
is believed 10 he sufficient, the lowest bid viii
| be accepted, if duly guaranteed. in preference
to 'star' or specific bid.
! When the lowest bid is not star bid, anC
specifies either no mode or all inadequate mode
Of conveyance, it will not be accepted, but Sc
aside for specific bid proposing the necessary
service.
When tile biu does not specify mode OF con.
veynnc', also when it proposes to carry 'accOr
ding To the advertisement" but without sucl
specification. II will be considered as u proposal
for horseback service.
q. 4 modification Of a bid in any of its es.
seutiuI terms, is tlntamount to new bid, anG
cannot be received, SO as to Interfere with regu
lar competitions after the last hour set for recei
wing bids.
% POslmasters are to be careful not to GER
tify the sulliciency Of guarrantors or suretie.
without knowing that they are persons Of suth
cient responsibility; and all bidders, guaraHtors
and suretics distinctly notified that fail
ure to enter into or perform the contracts Gol
the service proposed for in the accepted bids
their legal liabilities will be enforced agains
them.
%. The contracts will be substantially i'll thu
forms herctofor, used i'll this department, eXccp
in the respects particularly mentioned in these
instructions and on all railroad and steamboa
routes the contractors will be required to dellve
the mails into the post Offices at the ends of tn
routes and into all Tie intermediate post office
not more thaa eighty rods from the railroad o,
landing.
24. Present contractors, and persons known
at tho department, must,cquuIly with others ,p-o
cure Euurantors and certificates of their suttici
ercy substantially in the forms above prescribed
The certificates of suiticiency must he signed b.
Il postmaster at one Of the places before named
or judge OF Il court of record
PoStmasters at the ends of routes on which
they think the present mode of conveyance in
| adequate, "iii weigh the mail each trip for si
successive weeks on weekly routes, and tire
weeks on ether routes, and report the result b,
tho 10Th April, 1855.
/ Jnu. IL. 1855. JAMES CAMPBELL,
jlm5l l2w Postmaster General.