Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-02-14

liable persons, for failing to arrive In contract time
for neglectng to take the mail from. or deliver Il
into, post Office suffering 1t lowing either 10 the
| unsultaoleness OF the place manner Of carrying
i to be injured, destroyed, robbed or lost and fol
refusing, after demand to convey the mail rs fire.
quently as the contractor runs or is concerned In
| running, coach, car, or steamboat on n route
6. The Postmaster General NAV anuul the contr.c,
for repeated failures to run agieeaby to coutract
for disobeying the post Office laws, or the instruc
lions OF the Department; for refusing to discharge
carrier when required by the Department to do so
for assigning the contract without the assent Of the
Postmaster General for running an express AZ afore
said or for transporting persons or packages CON.
| veytng mailable matter out Of the mail
7. 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 curtaiI the
| amount of running time. He may also order an
increase of speed, he allowing within the restric.
tons OF the law apro rata increase of pay for the
additional stock or carriers, any. The contractor
may, however, in the case of increase of Speed re-
lnquish the contract by giving prompt notice to the
Department that he prefers doing to carving the
order into effect. The Postmaster General NAV also
ourtah OF discontinue the service at pre- rata de-
crease of pay, allowing one months extra COM
pensation on the amount dispensed with, whenever
his opinion the public interests do not require the
same, or in case he desires to supersede it BY differ.
eat grade of transportation.
s. Payments viii be made for the service by collec
tons from, or drafts on pOstmasters or other
after the expiration of each quarter-say in Febru
airy, May, August, and November.
3. The distances are given according to the hat
Information; but increased pay will be allowed
should they be greater than advertised if the points
to be supplied be correctly stated Bidders ust in.
| form themselves on this point.
10. The Postmaster General Is prohibited by Law
| from knowingly making contract for the transpor
taton of the mails with any person who shall have
entered into or proposed to enter into any combine
ton to prevent the making of any bid for "A mail
contract H.
shall have made any agreement or shall have given
| or performed, or promised to give or perform any
consideration whatever, or to do not t. do any
thing whatever, in order to induce any other person
or persons not to bid for mail contract Particular
attention Is called 70 the 2Sth section Of the act
lS3o, prohibiting combinations to prevent bidding
II. bid received after time, viz: m of the 18th
May, 1855, or without the guaranty required by
law or that combines several routes in one sum OF
compensation, cannot be considered i'm competition
with regular proposal reasonable in amount.
IL Bidders should. in all cases. first propose for
service strictly according to the advertisement and
then, If they DESIRE separately for different service
aud If the regular bid be the lowest offered for the
advertised service, the other bids may be considered;
il the alterations proposed recommended by the
postmasters and citizens interested or if they shall
appear manifestly right and proper.
ID There should be but one route bid for In q
proposal
maine 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 horseback be intended. The
words with auecelerity, certainty, and security"
inserted to indicate the mode of CONVEYANCE win
constitute - star bid"
Is Bidders requested TO use, as far as practI
cable tie printed f,rn of proposal furnished by the
department 10 white out in full the rum Of their
BIDS, and to re, ain copieSof hem
40 altered bids can be considered, and no bids
once submit ted can be withdrawn.
Each b d must be guaranteed by two responsible
GENERAL aQtpeS caOnct "A
10. The bill should bs sealed; uperscribed Msi,
Proposals, state Of or Territory Of -,"(as the
case may be,) addressed Second Assistant Post
master Gen raj, Contract Office and sest " mail
n t ~, or 70, an agent, and postmater will not
eaclo'e GALS, Tor letters CT ally knj) 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 must b mmenced the mail day
next after that date, whe her ,he ntracts be exc.
cued or not No proposition for transfers will be
con Iiesed u til the contracts are executed in due
form and received at the department; and hen no
raosfers will bs allowed un-ss good and sufficient
reasons therefor given to be determined by the
department.
March 3, 1S45 provides that contracts for the trans
portation Of the mail shall be let in every
the lowest bidder rendering sufficient guarantees
for faithful performance without other reference &c
the mode of such transportation than may be neces
sary TO provide for the due celebrity, certainty and
security of such transportation" Under this Law
new description of bids has been received. 1t does
not specify a mode Of conveyance, but engages to
take the entire mail each trip with CELEBRITY certain.
and security, using the terms Of the law These
bids are styled, from the manner in which they
designated the books of the Department, 4" star
bids and they will be construed providing for the
entire mail, however large, and ,0haterer may be
the mode OF conveyance necessary 70 insure It's CELEBRITY,
certainty, and security"
In all where the lowest grade Of service 10
believed to be sufficient the lowest bid will be accep-
ted, If duly GUARANTEED in preference to "star"
specific bid.
When the lowest bid is not star bid and specifies
either no mode or inadequate 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 con.
veyance, Also when ii proposes to carry according
to the advertisement" but without such specification
1t will be considered proposal for horseback ser.
vice.
49, A modification of bid, in any of its essential
terms is tantamount to q new BID, and cannot be
received, as TO interfere with regular competition
after the last hour set for receiving bids.
20. Postmasters are TO be careful not to certify
the sufficiency OF guarantOrs sureties without
knowing that they persons of sufficient respon.
sbty and all bidders, guarsntors and sureties
distinctly notified that on failure to enter into
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 the
Department, must, equally with others, procure
guarantors and certificates Of their sufciency sub
stantially in the forms above prescribed. The csr.
tifcstes of sufciency must be signed by a postmas
ter, at one OF the rlsces before nsmed, judge OF
q court of record.
JAMES CAMPBELL,
Postm sster General.
jan 25-ihaw