Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-03-21
albie person.. GeneraI enalEallees .eannot Be-

sibis persons. General guarantees cannot be
admitted.
IL. The bid should be sealed !; superscribed
IS Tnail proposals, State of Virginia., addressed
IS Second Assistant p Postmaster General, ?, Con-
tract Office; and sent by mail, not by, or to, an
agent, and postmasters will not enclose propo-
sails Cor letters of any kindly in their quarterly
returns.
Is. The contracts are to be executed and rec
turned TO the department by or before the lst of
July, 1855, but the service must be commenced
on ths mail day next after thnt date, whether
the contracts be executed or not. No PROPOSE
lion TO transfers wtll8be considered until the,
contracts are executed in due form and received
at the department; and then no transfers will
be allowed unless good aud sufficient reasons
therefor arc given, TO DO determined by he 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 ure Otherwise supplied with the mail,
to enable the Postmaster Generui to direct a
| mail messenger supply from The LIST of July
next.
90. Section Is ofanacto Congress approved
March, 8, 845, provides that contracts for the
transportation Of the mail shall be let, IS in eve
ry case, 10 the lowest bidder rendering suftici-
eht guarantees for flithtul performance, with
out other reference TO the mode of such trans
| portatiOn than may be necessary to provide for
the due celebrity, certainty, aud security cf such
| transportationS." Under this law u new descrp-
ton of bids has been received. II docs not specify
u mode Of conveyance, but engages to take the
entire mail each trip with celebrity, certainty ID
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, ''StGr
bidS,'' and they will be construed as providing
for the entire mail, horeper nrqe, and ipiGteueT
may be the mode Of conveyance necessary to insure
| its ~ celebrity, certainty, and security.''
In all cases where the lowest grade Of service
is believed to be sufficient, tho lowest bid will
| be accepted, if duly guaranteed. in preference
| to ''star'' or specific bid
| When tho lowest bid is not star bid, and
specifies either no mode or an inadequate mode
OF conveyance, it wiil,not be accepted, but set
aside for a specific bid proposing the necessary
service.
When the bid does not specify mode of con-
| veyance, also when it proposes to carry 'accor :
ding to the advertisement" but without such
specification, ii will be considered as proposal
| for horseback service.
81. A modification of a bid, in any Of it's es-
sentiul terms, is tantanlount to now bid, and
| cannot be received, 10 interfere with regu-
lar competition, after tho last hour set for recei-
wing bids.
%. Postmasters arc to be careful not to cor
tify tho sutIiciency of guarrantors or sureiies
without knowing that they are persons of suffi-
|
and surctes distinctly notified that, on fail
ure to enter into perform tho contracts for
the service proposed for in the accepted bids,
their legal Liabilities will be enforced against
them.
%. The contracts will be substantially i'll the
forms heretOforj used i'll this department, except
i'll the respects particularly mentioned in these
! instructions and OIL all railroad and steamboat
routes the contractors will be required to deliver
the mails into the post Offices at the ends of the
routes and into all the intermediate post offices
not more than eighty rods from the railroad or
landing.
81. Present contractors, and persons known
at the department, must,cqualy with others, p:o-
cure guarantOrs and certificates of their suffici-
ency substantially in tho forms above prescribed
The certificates Of sufficiency must bo signed by
a postmaster at one Of the places before named,
or judge of a court of record.
| Postmusters at tho ends of routes on which
they think the present mode of conveyance in
adequate, will weigh tho mail each trip for six
successive weeks on weekly routes, and three
weeks on other routes, and report the result by
tho 10th April, 1855.
| Jan. II, 1855. JAMES CAMPBELL,
! jan3l l2w Postmaster General.