, 1858-01-01

Combining conions 10 be incorporated in the contracts
to the ertent the department may think proper.
|. Seven minutes arc allowed to each intermediate
Office, when not otherwise specified, for asserting the
mails.
2. Railroad and steamboat companies are required
tO take the mail from, and deliver it into, the post Off
at the commencement and end of their routes and
to and from all offices not more than so rods from a
station or landing. Proposals may be submitted for
the performance of all the side seryce-that is for
Offices over eighty rods from station landing.
O. No pay will be made for trips not performed;
and for each Of such omissions not satisfactorily
pained three times tho pay of the trip may be de-
Quoted. For arrivals fat behind time as to break
connection with depending mails and not sufficiently
excused, Onet0urth Of the compensation of the trip
is subject to forfeiture. Deduction will also be
dered for grade Of performance inferior TO that spe-
cihed in the contract For repeated denquencies Of
the kind herein specified, enlarged penalties proper.
toned to the nature thereof and the Importance Of
the mail, may be made.
l. 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 running an ex-
press conveying intelligence in advance Of the mail
aquarters pay may be deducted.
). Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquency
be promptly aud satisfactorily explained by certitl-
Gates of postmaster the adavits OF other credi-
bic persons for failing to arrive in contract time; for
negieeting tp take the mail from or delvert into
post Office; for suffering it lowing either TO the insult
ableness of the place Of carrying i) to be
wet injured destroyed robbed, lost and for refl.
sing, alter demand to convey the mail as frequently
as the contractor runs is concerned in running,
coach, car, or steamboat on a route.
O. The Postmaster General may annul the contract
for repeated failures to ageeaby to contract for
violating the post Office laws, disobeying the in
structons of the department. for refusing to discharge
carrier when required by the department to do so
for assigning the contract without the assent Of the
Postmaster Genera for running an express as aiore
said; for transporting persons or packages convey
ing maable matter out Of the mall
I. The Postmaster General may order an increase
of service route by allowing therefor pro rata
increase on the contract pay. He may change sched
ules of departures and arrivals In all cases, and par
tcularly to make them conform to connections with
railroads, without increase of pay, provided the run
ming time be not abridged. He may also order an
increase Of speed;aowng within the restrictions Of
the law pro rata increase Of pay for the additional
stock Or carriers if any. The contractor may, how
ever in the Of increase Of speed relnqush tie
contract by giving prompt notice to the department
that he prefers doing to carrying the order into ef
feet The Postmaster General may also curtail or dis
continue the service in whole or in part at pro rita
decrease Of pay, allowing one months extra compen-
slton on the amount dispensed with, whenever, in
his opinion, the public interests do mot require the
same or in case he desires to supercede II by differ
ent grade Of transportation.
8. Payments will be made for the service by col
cctons from, drafts postmasters or otherwise,
after the expiration Of each quartersay in February,
May, August and November.
3. The distances are given according to the best
information; but no increased pay will be allowed
should they be greater than advertised If the points
10 be supplied be correctly stated. Bidders must in
form hemselues on ts point; and also in reference to
the weight Of the mail, the condition OF roads, hills,
streams &C. and all tolbridges, ferries, or obstruc-
tons Of any kind by which expense may be incurred
No claim for additional pay based on such grounds
can be considered; nor for alleged mistakes or mis-
apprehensions as TO the degree Of service; nor for
brdg destroyed, other distractions increasing dis
tance, occurring during the contract term. Offices
established after this advertisement is issued and al
during the contract term to be visited without
extra pay, II the distance he not increased.
10. A bid received after the last day and hour ma
med, or without the guarantee required by law, or
that combines several routes in one sum Of cOmpen-
sation, cannot he considered in competition with q
regular proposal reasonable in amount.
H. Bidders should first propose for service strict
y according to the advertisement, and then, il they
desire separately for different services and II the reg
ular bid be the lowest offered for the advertised serv-
ice. the other propositions may be considered.
II. There should be but one route bid for in pro-
pOsal.
l3 The route, the service, the yearly pay, the
name and residence of the bidder, Chat is his usual
post office address) and those Of each member Of
firm where a company offers should te distinctly sta
ted; also the mode Of conveyance, IL higher mode
than horseback be intended. The words with due
certainty, and security inserted to Indicate the mode
OF conveyance, will constitute "stdr tid.' When
star bid" is intended, no specific conveyance must
be named
H. Bidders are requested 10 use, far practic-
able the printed form Of proposals furnished by the
department to write out in full the Of their bids
and to retain copies OF them
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