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go NOTES.
Seven minutes are allowed to each intermediate Office,
when not otherwise specified for opening and examining
the mails.
No pay viii be made for trips not pcrformed and for
each Of such omissions not satisfactorily explained three
times the pay OF lie trip may be deducted For arrivals
far behind time to break connexion with depending
Mails and sufficiently excused fourth of The
pensaton for the tip is sutjsct to forfeiture. ~
Fines will be Imposed unless the delinquency be prompt
ly and satisfactorily explained by certificates of postmas
tes the adavis of other credible persons for failing
to arrive in contract time for neglectng to take the mail
from, deliver it into, post Office for suffering ii to be
wet injured, destroyed, robbed, or lost,
The Postmaster General may annul the contract for
peaed failures to run ngreeaby to contract for violating
the post Office laws disobeyng the instructions of the
department. for refusing TO discharge carrier when
quested by the department to do So for assigning the
tract without the of the Postmaster General for
transporting persons or packages conveying nathalie mat
ter out of the mail.
The Postmaster General may order an increase Of SER
vice on route by allowing therefor rata increase
the contract pay lie may change schedules of departures
and arrivals and make them conform in oil
nexons with railroads. without increase Of pay, provided
increase OF speed allowing, witha the restrictions of the
law pro rata increase OF pay for the additional stock of
carriers If any The may, however in the
Of increase Of speed renqush the contract by giving
prompt notice TO The that he prefers doing go
to carrying the order nto feet The Postmaster General
may also cnrail discontinue the service in whole
part pro rata decrease OF pay allowing months
ira compensation in tho amount dispsnsed with, when
ever 10 his opinion the public interests do not require the
same in be desires to superede 1t by different
grade Of transportation
Payments will be made for the service by collections
FROM drafts on postnasers otherwise after the ex-
piration ofeach qlarlersay in February, May August
and November.
The distances given according to the best norma-
ton but increased pay will be allowed should they be
than advertised if the points to be supplied be
recy stated Bidders must inform memsttpes this point
Bidders requested TO use, far practicable the
printed form of proposal furnished by the department
to write out in full the Of their bids and to retain
copies Of them.
Each bid must be GUARANTEED by two responsible persons
General guarantees cannot be admitted
The bid should be sealed surperscribed Mail propo-
sals, State Of addressed Second Assistant Poslnas-
ter General, Contract Office aud sent by mail by
an agent and postmastes viii not enclose proposals Tor
letters OF any kindly in their quarterly returns
The contracts TO be executed and returned The de-
parment by or before the lst Of August 1857 but the
vice be commenced the mail day next after July
LIST, whether the copiIacts be executed or not.
Section is Of aet or Congress approved March g. 1915
provides that contracts for the transportation Of tho mail
shall be let "in every cnse to the lowest bidder rendering
sufficient guoranlesor faithful performances without other