The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1860-03-09

connexion with depending mails, and not sufficient
| excused, one-fourth of the compensation for the
| TRIP is subject to forfeiture. Deduction will also
| De ordered for grade of performance inferior TO
that specified in the contract. For repeated delin-
quences of the kind herein specified enlarged PEN
atles, proportioned TO the nature thereof and the
Importance of the mail, may be made.
! D. For leaving behind or throwing off the mails
or any portion of them for the admission of passen-
gers, or for being concerned in settling up or run
ming an express conveying intelligence in advance
OF the mail quarters pay may be deducted.
D. Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquency
be promptly and satisfactorily explained by certif-
Gates OF posmasers the affdayits of other credi
bic persons, for failing 10 arrive in contract time;
for negecting 10 take the mail from or deliver it
into post office for suffering it 10 be wet destroy
ed, robbed or lost and for refusing, after demand
to convey the mail as frequently as the contractor
runs or Is concerned IN running coach, car or
! steamboat on route.
7. The Postmaster General may annu the con-
tract Tor repeated failures TO agreeabY to con-
tract for violating the Post Office laws, or DISC
beying the instructions of the department for re-
fuslng to discharge carrier when required BIZ the
| department. to do SO; for running express as a.
toresad or for transporting persons pac kages,
conveying mailable matter out of the mail.
s. The Postmaster General may order an increase
OF service on route by allowing therefor pro rata
increase on the contract pay. He may change sche-
dulles OF departures and arrivals in all cases. and par
| hcnarly to make them to conform TO connexions
with rail roads, without increase of pay, provided
| the running time be not abridged. He may also
order an increase of speed, allowing, within the
restrictions of the law, pro rata increase of nav
! Tor the additional stock or carriers, If any. The
contractor may, however in the case OF increase of
speed rellnqush the contract, by giving prompt no.
tce to the department that he prefers doing so to
| carrying the order into effect. The Postmaster
General may also curtail discontinue the service
In whole or In paTt at pro rGtg decrease of pay al
lowing one months extra compensation on the a.
| mount dispensed with, whenever, in his opinion
the public interests require the change, or IN case
he desires to suPersede 1t by different grade of
! transportation.
8. Payments will be made by collections from
or drafts on postmasters otherwise after the ex-
| plration of each quarter-say in February, May
August and November.
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 be correctly stated. Bidders must
inform themselves on this point, and also in refer
| ence TO the weight of the mail, the condition of
roads, hills, streams, &c and all toll-brdges. fer
res, or obstructions Of any kind by which expense
may be incurred. No claim for additional pay,
based on such ground can be considered nor for
alleged mistakes or Misrepresentation as TO the de-
gree OF service ner for bridges destroyed, ferries
discontinued, or other distractions increasing dis
tance, occurring during the contract term. Offices
established after this advertisement is issued and
| also during the coatract term, are TO be visited
without extra pay, if the distance be not in
| creased.
IL. a bid received after the last day and hour
named, or without the guaranty. required by law
and certificate to the sufHciency of such guar
anty, cannot be considered in competition with
! regular proposal reasonable in amount.
l2 Bidders should first propose for service strict
ly according TO the advertisement and then. If they
desire, separately for different service and if the
regular bid be the lowest offered for the advertised
service, the other propositions may be consid-
cred.
13. There should be but one route bid flor in q
/ proposal. Consolidated or combination bids 6'pro-
posing one sum for two or m ore routes') are for
| hidden by law, and cannot be considered
| III l3. The route, the service, the yearly pay, the
name and residence of the bidder, Uhat is, his usu-
al post office address,) and those of each member of
| firm, where company offers, should be distinct
| y stated.
Is. Bidders are requested to use, as far as prac-
hcable, the printed form of proposal furnished by
the department. 10 write ont in full the sum of
| theU bids, and 10 retain copies of them.
Altered bids should not be submitted nor should
bids once submitted be withdrawn. No withdraw
al OF a bidder guaraotoy will be allowed unless
dated and received before the last day for receiving
proposals.
Each bid must be guaranteed by two responsible
persons.
General guarantees cannot be admitted. The bid
and guaranty should be signed plainly with the full
name of.each person.
The department reserves the right to reject any
bad which may be deemed extravagant, and also 10
disregard the bids OF failing contractors and bid
ders.
IS. The bid should be sealed, superscribed
SsMail Proposals. State OF -, addressed, ssSec-
ond Assistant Postmaster General Contract Oiice''
and sent by mail, not by or to agent; aud post
masters Will not enclose proposals (or letters of any
khd) IN their quarterly returns.
H. The contracts are to be executed and return
ed TO the department by or before the lst day of
Angus I, 1850 but the service must be commenced
on the lst OF July preceding, the mail day
next after that date, whether the contracts be
ecuted or not No proposition to transfer will be
considered until the contracts are executed and re-
ceIved at the department and then transfer will
be allowed unless good and sufficient reasons there
Tor are given, 10 be determined by the department
In all cases the retiring contractor will be required
TO become one of the sureties on the new con-
tract.
Is. Postmasters at offices on or near railroads,
but more than eighty rods from station, will, i'm
medately after the 3lst 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 mail messen-
ger supply faom the lst of July next.
- Section eighteen of an act of Congress ap-
proved March }. 1885, provides that contracts for
the transportation of the mail shall be let sr ev-
cry case to the lowest bidder rendering sufficient
guarantees for faithful performance without other
reference ia the mode OF such transportat on'' Un-
der this law bids that propose to transport the
mail with "celerity. certainty and securty,' hav-
ing been decided to be the only legal BIDS are con-
strned as providing for the entre, mail, however
large, and whatever may be the mode Of convey
ance necessary to insure its ceerty, certainty and
security" and will have the preference over all
others.
80. modification OF bid in any of its essen
tiai terms IS tantamount 10 bid, and cannot
be received, SO as to interfere with regular CON-
petition, after the last hour set for receiving bids
Making new bid, with guarantees and certificate. |
as the only way to modify previous bid.
q. Postmasters are 10 be careful not To rertifu