Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-02-14
IS. General guarantees cannot be

sibie persons. General guarantees cannot be
admitted
IT. The bid should be sealed superscribed
sc mail proposals, State of Virgins" 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 Cor letters of any kind) in their quarterly
returns.
18. 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
lion 70 transfers will be considered until the
contracts are executed in due form and received
at the department and then no transfers will
he allowed unless good and sufficient reasons
therefor ure given, TO be determined by the de-
partmcnt.
10. Postmnst' rs al offices on or near railroads,
but more than eighty rods from station, will
Immediately after the 10th OF April next, report
their exnct distance from the nearest station, and
how they are otherwise supplied with the mail,
to enable the Postmaster General to direct
maiImessenger supply from the LIST OF July
next
90. Section IL OF an act of Congress approved
March, 3, l845, provides that contracts for the
transports of the mail shall be let, Sc in
ry case, TO the lowest bidder rendering suffici
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
transportations' Under this law new descrip-
ton of bids has been received. does not specify
a mode of conveyance, but engages to take the
entire mail each trip with celebrity, certainty aud
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 mall ho,oe1er large, and tohGteuer
'n0y be the mode Of c0Rreyance necessary to insure
its ' cel'rHy, 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 the lowest bid is not star bid, and
specifies either mode an 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 mode of con-
veyance, also when it proposes to carry 'accor-
ding TO the ADVERTISEMENT but without such
specification, it will be considered proposal
for horseback service.
81. y modification of hid, in any Of its es-
sential terms, is tantSmOunt to new bid, and
cannot be received, so as to interfere with regu-
lar competition, after the last hour set for rccci
viHG bids.
p. PostrlHstcrs are to be careful not to GER
tify the sLifcicncy Of guarrantors or sureteS
without knowing that they are persons of suffi-
)
and suretics distinctly notified that, on fail
urc to enter into perform tho contracts for
the service proposed for in the accepted bids,
their legal liabilities will BIO enforced against
them.
%. The contracts will be substantially in the
forms heretofore used in this department, except
in the respects particularly mentioned in these
instructions : and on all railroad and steamboat
routes the contractors will be required to deliver
the mails into the post offices at the ends of the
routes nnd into all the intermediate post offices
not more than eighty rods from the railroad or
landing.
%. Present contractors, and persons known
at the department, mus tcquaiIy with others P:o-
cure guarantors and certificates of their sulci-
cncy substantially in tho forms above prescribed.
The certificates of sufiicency must he signed by
Il postmaster at one of the places before named,
judge of Il court of record.
PoStmasters at the ends of routes which
they think the present mode Of conveyance in
adequate, will weigh the mail each trip for six
successive weeks on weekly routes, and three
weeks other routes, and report tho result by
the 10th April, 1855.
Jan. II, 1855. JAMES CAMPBELL,
an3l l2w Postmaster General