Nebraska advertiser., 1858-03-25

Containing conditions to be Incorporated in the con-
tracts to the erteRt the department may deem proper.
L. Seven minutes are allowed to each ~ntermedia
Office, when not otherwise specified for asserting the
mails; but on railroad and steamboat routes there is to
be no more delay than is sufncient for an exchange of the
mail bags.
2. On railroad and steamboat lines, and other routes
where the mode of conveyance admits Of it, the special
agents Of the department, also post Office blanks, mail
bags, locks and keys, are to be conveyed without extra
charge.
3. On railroad and steamboat lines the route agents Of
the department are to be conveyed without charge and for
their exclusive use while travelling with the mails, an
accommodation car, or apartment in the center of a car,
properly lighted, warmed and furnished, and adapted to
the convenient separation and due security of the mails,
is to be provided by the contractor, under the direction
Of the department.
Railroad and steamboat companies are required to take
the mail from, and deliver it into, the post oiBce at the
commencement and end of their routes, and to and from
All o1ices notmore than so rods from a station or land
ing Proposals may be submitted for the performance
Of all other side serviee-that is, for Offices over eighty
rods from a~landing or station.
Receipts will be required for mail bags conveyed in
charge ofpersons employed by railroad companies. There
will also be way bills prepared by ostmasters, or other
agents Of the Post Once Department. TO accon1papy the
mails, specifying the number and destination of the sever
al bags. On the principal stage routes likewise, receipts
will be required and way bills forwarded; the latter to
be examined by the several postmasteTs, to insure regu-
larity in the delivery Of mail bags.
4 No pay will be made for trips not performed; and
for each Of such omissions not satisfactorily explained,
three times the pay Of the trip may be deducted. For
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depending mails, and not sufficiently excused, o~ne-fourth
Of the compensation for the trip is subject to forfeiture.
Deduction will also be ordered for a grade Of performance
inferior to that specified in the contract. For repeated
delinquencies Of the kind herein specified, enlarged PEN
alties proportioned to the nature thereof and the impor-
lance Of the mail, may be made.
8. For leaving behind or throwing of the mails, or any
portion Of them for the admission Of passengers, or for
being concerned in setting up or running an express con-
veying intelligence in advance Of the mail, a quarters
pay may, be deducted
9. Pines will be imposed, unless the delinquency be
promptly and satisfactorily explained by certificates Of
pOstuasters, OF the afadarits Of other oFeditable persons,
for failing TO arrive in contract time; for negIeeting to
take the mail from or deliver il into a post once; for
suffering It owing either TO the unsuitableness Of the
place or the manner Of carrying i) to be wet, injured,
destroyed, robbed or lost; and for refusing, after demand,
to convey the mail as frequently as the contractor runs
orlseoncerned in running q COACH car or steamboat on
route,
z. The Postmaster General may annrl the contract fol
repeated failures to run agreeably to contract; for yioIat-
ing the Post Once laws, or disobeying the instructions Of
the department; for refusing to ~dischaTge a carrier wheT
required by che department to do SO; for assigning the
contrart without the assent Of the Postmaster General
for runninRaR express as aforesaid; Of for trsnScrtins