Nebraska advertiser., 1858-02-11
INSTRUCTIONS.


Containing conditions to be Incorporated in the con-
tracts to the erteRt the department. may deem proper.
l. Seven minutes are allowed to each intermediate
Office, when not otherwise specified for asserting the
mails; but on railroad and steamboat routes there is to
benO more delay than is %suficient 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.
8. 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 aad due security of the mails,
is to be provided by the contractor, under the direction
Of the department.
Railroad and steamboat compapies ara required to take
the mail from, and deliver it into, the post Office at the
commencement and end Of their routes, and to and from
all offices not more than 50 rods from a station or land
ing. Proposals may be submitted for the performances
OF all other side serviSe-that is, for Offices over eighty
rods from a landing or station.
Receipts will be required for mail bags conveyed IN
charge Of persons employed by railroad companies. There
will also be way bills prepared by Ostmasters, or other
agents Of the Post Once Department, to accompany 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 postmasters, to insure Fegu-
iarity in the delivery Of mail bags.
4 No pay will be made for trips not perforneds 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, ~one-fOurth
OF the compensation for the trip is subject 70 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 proportional to the nature thereof and the impor-
lance OF the mail, may be made. l
g. 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-
xeying intelligence in advance Of the mill, a quarters
pay may be deducted
Q. Fines WILDE imposeds unless the delinquency be
promptly and satisfactorily explained BY sertihcates Of
postmasters, or the afidavits of other e~reditable fers,ns,
for failing to arrive in contract time; for negIecting Il
take the mail from or deliver 1t into a post once; fol
suffering it lowing either to the unsuitableaesS Of the
place or the manner of carrying ij to be wet, injured
destroyed, robbed or lost; and for refusing, after demand,
10 eonyey the mail as frequently as the contractor ruasi
rsseoncerned in running a coach, car or steamboat on .
route,
Z. me Postmaster General may annul the contract fol
repeated failures 70 run agreeably to~contrsct; for vioIat.
ing the Post ONCE laws, or diSobeying the instructions oil
the department.; for refusing to discharge a carrier when
REQUIRED BY the department to do so for assigning the
contract without the assent Of the Postmaster General
,or running an express as afo ,eSaid; or for transport G