Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 185?-1859, 1857-12-19
INSTRUCTIONS,


Containing conditions to be incorporated in
the contracts 10 the ertent the department
may deem proper.
|. Seven minutes are allowed to each inter-
mediate oIhce, when not otherwise specified, for
asserting the mails.
2. Railroad and steamboat companies are re-
quired to take the mail from, and deliver it in
to, the post Offices at the commencement and
end of their routes, and to and from all olicos
not more than eighty rods from u station or
lrnding. Proposals may be submitted for tho
performance Of oil sho sersioo--that is, for
offices over eighty rods from station or IAN
dug.
3, No pay will bo made for trips not perfor-
med and for each Of such omissions, not ga.
tisfaetOriy explained, three times the pay OF
the trip may be deducted. For arrivals so far
behind time as to break conexiOn with depending
mails, and not sufficiently excused, )nofourth
of the compensation for the trip is subject to
forfeiture. Deduction will also be ordered for
grade Of performance inferior 10 that specl'
fed in the contract. For repeated dellnquenceS
of the kind herein specified, enlarged penalties,
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poItance Of the mail, may be made.
A. For leaving behind or throwing oil the
mails, or any portion Of them, for the admis-
sion Of passengers, or for being concerned in
setting ~ or running an express conveying in
telligenCe in advance of the mail, quarters
pay may be deducted.
). Fines will b, imposed, unless the dolin.
qucncy be promptly end satisfactorily explained
! by certificates Of postmaiters, or the nlhdavlts
Of other credible persons, for failing to arrive
in contract time; for suffering it lowing either
to the unsuitablenoss Of the place or manner
Of carrying it} to be wet, injured, destroyed
robbed, or lost, and for refusing, after demand
TO convey the mail as frequently as the con-
tractor luns, or is concerned in running coach
car. or steamboat on route. '' ~
6. The Postmaster General may annul thu
contract for repeated failures to run agreeably
to contract for violating the post Office laws, ,oi
iisobeying the instructions Of the department
for refusing to discharge carrier when requir'
ed by the department to do 60; for assigning thu
contract without the assent Of the Postmaster
General; for running an express as aforesaid, d
for transporting persons or packages conveying
mailable matter out OF the mail.
Z. The Postmaster General may order on in
crease Of service on o route by allowing there
for Dro rata increase Ou the contract pay
lie may change schedules Of departures AM
ariyals in oil cases, and particularly to max
them conferm to connexions with railroads
with out increase Of pay, p.oyided the runninI
time be not abridged. He may also order al
increase Of speed, allowing, within the restric
tions of the law, apro rata increase Of pay 70
the additional stock or carriers If any. Th
contractor, maJ,"bowever, in tho case Of incre
ase Of speed, rolinquish the contract by givin
promp. notice to the department. that be pre-
fers doing so to carrying tho order into eilec
The Postmaster General may also curtail Q
discontinue tho service, IN whole or in part, 4
pro rata decrease Of pay, allowing one month
extra compensation on the amount dispense
with, whenever, in his opinion, the public in
terests do not require the same, or in case !
desires to supersele it by different Grade
transportation, Wa.'
s. Payments viii be made for the service b
collections from, or drafts on postmasters, {
otherwise, after tho expiration Of each quartz
I. -sayi in February, MAY, august, and NOven
Q ber. -
! o. The distances are given according to Il
!. best information; but no increased pay will |
: allowed should they DO greater than adyertise'
!. il the points to be supplied be correctly state
Bidders must inform Themselves on this poin
and also in reference to the weight Of bridge
ferries, or distractions Of any kind BY Whit
sxpense may be incurred. No claim for o,
i ditional pay based on such grounds can