The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-02-01
INSTRUCTIONS.

Containing conditions TO he incorporated in the contracts
to the extent 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 be no more delay than is sufficient for an ex-
| change of the mail bags.
.. On railroad and steamboat lines, and other
routes where the mode of conveyance, admits of it.
the special agents of the Psst Office Department,
also post Office blanks, mail bags, locks, and keys,
are te be conveyed without extra charge. =
3. On railroad and steamboat lines the route
agents ofthe department are to be conveyed without
charge, and fer their exclusive use, while travelling
with the mails, a commodions car, OF apartment in
the centre of a car, properly lighted, warmed, and
furnished, and adapted 10 the convenient separation
and due security of the mails, is to be provided by
the contractor, under the direction Of the depart
ment.
Railroad and steamboat companies are required
to take the mail from and deliver it into the post
Offices at the commencement and end of their routes,
and to and from all offices not more than eighty rods
from a station or landing. Proposals may be sub
mitted for the performance of all other side service
that is, for offices ever eighty rods from a station
or landing. Inns
Receipts will be required for mail bags conveyed
in charge of persons employed by railroad compa-
MES. There will also be way bills pre- pared by
pestmasters, or other agents of the department, 10
accompany the mails, specifying the lumber and
destination of the several bags. On the principal
stage routes, likewise, receipts will be required and
way bills forwarded; the latter TO be examined by
the several poStmasierS, TO insure regularity IN Inc
delivery of mail bags. ns
4. No pay will be made for trips not performed
and for each of such omissions not satisfactorily ex-
planned three times the pay ofthe trip may be de-
Quoted. For arrivals so far behind time as to break
connexion with depending mails, and not sufficiently
excused one-fourth of the compensation for the trip
is subject to forfeiture Deduction will also be or
dered for a grade of performance inferior to that
specified in the contract. For repeated deiinquen-
cies of the kind herein specified, enlarged penalties,
proportional to the nature thereof and the inpor-
lance of the mail, may be made
5. For leaving behind or throwing off the mails,
or any portion of them. for the admission of pa :sen-
gers, or for being concerned in setting up or running
an express conveying intelligence in advance of the
mail, a quarters pay may be deducted.
6. Fines will be imposed. unless the delinquency
be promptly and satisfactorily explained by certif-
Gates of postmasters or the affidavits of other credi-
BILE persons. for failing to arrive in contract time;
for neglecting to take the mail from. or deliver it
a post Office; for suffering it to be wet. injured.
destroyed, robbed. or lost; and fer refusing, after
to convey the mail as frequently as the !
runs, or is concerned in running a coach,
car, or steamboat on q route.
Z. The Postmaster General may an null the con
tract for repeated failures to run agreeably to con-
tract; for violating the Post Office laws. or disobey-
the instructions of thsdepartment: for refusing
to discharge a carrier when required by the depart
ment TO de so; Tor running an express as aforesaid;
Or for transporting persons or packages conveying
matter out of the mail.
o. The Postmaster General may order an increase
s~f seryics on . route By allowing therefor . pro rata