Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1859-01-22

nav be submitted for the performance OF al other
side service-that Is, for Offices over eighty RODS
from a station or landing
in charge of persons employed by railroad eomPa-
MES. There will also be s'wsy Bills" prepared oy
postmasters or other agents Of the department, 20
accompany the mails, specifying the Danber anq
destination of the several bags. On tho pfYncipaI
stage routes, likewise, receipts Will be required
and way bills forwarded the lstter to be examin
ed by the several postmasters, to insure regularity
| in the delivery of mail bags.
4. No pay will be made for trips not performed;
and for each Of such omissions atsfgct0rily
planned three times the pay OF the trip may be do
Quoted. For arrivals far behind time as to break
connection with depending mails, and not sufficient
lv excused, fourth OF the compensation for tho
trip is subject to forfeiture. Deduction will also
be ordered for grade of performance inferior to
that specified in the CONTRACTS. For repeated de-
linquencies of the kind herein specified, enlarged
penalties. proportiefed to the nature thereof ard
the Importance Of the mail. may be made.
s. For leaving behind or throwing off the maiis,
or any portion of them for the admission of pas
sengers, or for being eoneeraed IN setting up Or
running an an express conveying intelligence in 70
6. Fines will be imposed. unless the delinquency
be promptly and satisfactorily explained By seftf
Gates of postmas;ers or the sdsvits Of other cred
ible persons, for failing to arrive in contract tine
for negiecting to take the msf from Or deliver il
into post office; for suffering il to Be wet, injured,
destroyed, robbie, or lost and for refusing sftsr
demand, to convey the nail IS Aequenty as tire
contractor runs, or is concernes; IN running, .
coach, car, or steamboat a route. r- =
Z. The Postmaster General may snneS the con-
tract for repeated failures to agreexby to con-
tract for violating the Post Office ]sss, Or diso-
beylng the instructions of the department. for
fusfng to discharge carrier when required by the
| department to do SO; for running an express a.
aforesaid or for transporting persons or pseksges
conveying mailable matter out of the mail.
| 8. The Postmaster General may order an in
crease of service on route by allowing therefor
pro rata increase on the contract pay. He may
change schedules of departures and arrivals in all
cases, and particularly to make them conform to
come xons with railroads. without increase of pay
provided the running time be not abridged. He
| may also order increase of speed, allowing,
within the restrictions of the law, pro rata In
crease OF pay for the additional stock carriers,
| If any. The contractor may, however, in the case
| OF increase Of speed, relnquish the contract, by
| giving prompt notice to the department that he
prefers doing so to ca rying the order into effect.
The postmaster may also curta or discontinue the
Service in whole or in part at pro rata decrease Of
pay, allowing one months extra compensation on
the amount dispensed with, whenever, in his opin-
ion the public interests require the change, or III
csse he desires to supersede 1t by different grade
9. Payments will be made by collections from or
drafts on postnasters, otherwise after the expi
ration OF each quarter-say in February; May, Au-
gust, and November. -tfl,
10. 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
to be supplied De correctly stated Bidders msss
ence to the weight of the MALL the condition Of
roads. hills streams, &c., and all t6llbridges fer
ries, or obstructious of any kind by which expense
may be incurred. No claim for additional pay,
based on such grotnd, can be considered; nor for
alleged mistakes Misrepresentation as the degree
of service; for bridges destroyed, ferries dis
continued, other INSTRUCTIONS increasing dis
lance, occurring during the contract term. OFF,
t0h1 hoA So
and also during the contract term to be visited
without extra pay If the distance be not increased.
II. A bid received after the last day and hour
named, or without the guaranty named BY law ana
certificate as to the suficieney of such guaranty;
cannot be considered in competition with regular
proposal reasonable in amount.
II. Bidders should first propose for service strict
ly according to the advertisement, and then, if.
they DESIRE separately for different service and II
the regular bid be the lowest offered for the adveri
tised service, the other propositions may be coH-
s;dered .
Is. There should be but one route bid for Id
proposal. Consolidated or combination bids "pro-
posdg one sum for two or more routes'') are for
hidden by law, and cannot be considered:
a: The route, the service, tile yearly pay, the
and o residences Of the s1s SaEd a Chat his a
of firm, where company offers, should BE dis
tincty stated; also the mode of cdnyeyance, if. d
higher mode than horseback be intended. The
words with due celebrity, certainty and security.
constitute "sltr bid" When star bid is in
tended. no specific conveyance must be named
But in case tro modes of conveyance are named at
the same compensation, tie highest 81 best for the
service will be taken.
Is. Bidders are requesed, to use rs far as prac-
tlcable the printed form of proposals furnished by
the department. to write out in full the SUM of their
bids, and to retain copies of Them
Altered bids should hot be submitted nor should
bids once submitted be withdraWh. No withdrawal
Of BIDDER or guarantor will BE allowed unless ds-
tea and received before tie last day for feteiyns
Each bid must be guaranteed by two responsible ,
persons. - @ - { /,
General guarantees cannot be admitted. The bid
and guaranty should be signed plaihy with the full
name OF each person:
The department reserves the right "a reject any
bid which may be deemed extravagant, and also to
disregard the bids Of falling contractors and bid
Is. The bid should be sealed, .upef.cribed ''M.n
Assistant Postmaster General, Contract Office"
and sentPy mail, not by or to an ageht; and post
masters viii not enclose proposals Cor letters Of
any knd} IN their quarterly returns.
". The contracts are to be executed and return-
ed to the department by or before the Let DAY of
AugEst. 1883; but the service must be comm.heed
on the LIST July preceding or on tie ms1l day NEXT
after that date whether the contracts be executed
or not NO proposition to transfer will be consid-
cred until the contracts are executed and received
At the Department. and then no transfer will be al
lowed Unless good and sufficient reasons therefor
are given, to be determined by the department.--
In all cases the retiring contractor will be REQUIRED
to become one of the sureties on the new contract
10. Postmasters at Offices on or near railroads,
but more than eighty rods from station, win inn.
mea,atsiy after the sst of March next report their
exact distance from the nearest, station and how
they are otherwise supplied with the mail, to ena-
BILE the Postmaster General to direct a mail-mes-
senger supply from the LIST Of July next.
10. Section eighteen of an act of Consress an.
proved March 8, lS4h, provides that contracts for
the transportation of the mail shall be let in every
case to the lowest bidder rendering sufciert guar
antics for faithful performances, without other ref
erence to the mode of such transportation than NAV
be necessary for the due CELEBRITY certainty and Sc
curity OF such transportation" Under this law a
new description of bids has been received. They
90 not specify mode of conveyance, but engage to
take the entfre mail each trip with celeritY. GER
tainty, and security, using the terms of the law
These bids are styled, from the manner in which
they are designated on the books of the Department
s'star bids, and they will be Construed as proyid
ing for the conveyance of the entire mail kocerer
large, and rKateoer may be the mode necessoru To-
'nsare its "ce!ersy, certainty, and security"
W hen the lowest grade Of service is believed IT,
be sufficient, the lowest bid will be accepted in pref
erence to q star or.speei6c bid.
When the lowest bid is not star bid, and specs-
hes either no mode or inadequate mode of con-
veyance IT viii not be accepted, but be set aside
Tor specIhc btq proposing the necessary service
When the bid does not specify mode of convex
ance, also when it proposes to carry accordine 10
the advertisement but without such specification
It will be considered as proposal for horseback
service, ~ II.
TO- A modification of bid in any of its essential
terms IS tantamOunt to new bid and cannot he re.