The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-02-22
Containing condition. TO De incorporates in tie contract.

agents ofthe department are to be conveyed without
charge. and for their exclusive use, while travelling
with The mails, a conmodiouS car, or apartment in
the centre of a car, properly lighted. warmed. and
furnished, and adapted TO 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.
Receipts will be required for mail bags conveyed
in charge of persons employed by railroad compa-
mics. There will also be way bills prepared by
postmasters. or other agents of the department, 10
accompany the mails, specifying the number and
destination of the several bags. On the principal
stage routes, likewise. receipts win be required and
way bills forwarded; the latter to be examined 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 not satisfactorily ex-
planned three times the pay of the trip may be de-
Quoted. For arrivals so far behind time as 10 break
connection 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 infer. or to that
specified in the contract. For repeated delinqucn-
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 themails,
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 afidayits of other credi-
BILE persons. for failing to arrive in contract time;
for neglecting to take the mail from or deliver it
into a Post Office; for suffering it to be wet. injured,
destroyed. robbed, or lost; and fer refusing. after
demand. TO convey the mail as frequently as the
contractor runs, or is concerned in running a coach.
car. or steamboat on a route.
Z. The Postmaster General may annul the con
tract for repeated failures to run agreeably to con-
tract; for violating the Post Ofi~e laws, or disobey-
ing the instructions of the department.; for refusing
to discharge a carrier when required by the depart
ment 10 de so; Tor running an express as aforesaid;
or for transporting persons or packages conveying
mailable matter out of the mail
8. Ike Postm lster General may order an increase
of service on a route by allowing therefor a pro rata
Increase onthe contract pay. lie may change sched-
ules of departures and arrivals in all cases, and
particularly to make them conform to connexions
with raslroads. without increase of pay. provided
the running Time be not abridged. lie may also
order an increase of speed, allowing. within the re-
strictions of the law. a pro rata increase of pay for
the additional stock or carriers, if any. The con-
tractor may, however. in the case of increase of
speed, relinquish the contract. by giving prompt no
tice to the department that he prefers doing so to
carrying the order into effect. The Postmaster Gen
eral may also cur;ail or discontinue the service, in
whole OF IN part, " pro TuIu ucCrOaSC OF OILY. llO
ing one month"; extra compensation on the amount
dispensed with. whenever, i'll his opinion. the public
interests require the change, or in case he desires
tc supersede ii by n different grade of transportation.
9. aymen will be made by collections from or
drafts on p. stmas.ers, or otherwise, after the expi-
ration of each quartcr-say in February, May, Au-
gust, and November.
10. The distances are given according to the
best information: bat no increased pay will be allow
ed should they be greater than advertised, ii the
points to be supplied be correctly stated. Bidders
must inform themselves on tbs point, and also in ref
erence TO the weight of the mail, the condition OF
roads, hills, streams, Sc. and all toll bridges, fer
ries, or Instructions of any kind by which expense
may be incurred. No claim for additional pay.
based on such ground, can be considered; nor fer
alleged mistakes or misrepresentation as TO the degree
of service; nor for bridges destroyed. ferries discon-
tinued, or other obs ructions increasing distance, oc-
curing during the contract term. Offices estab-
lished after this advertisement is issued. and also
dun ing the contract term, are to be visited without
extra pay, if the distance be not increased.
IL. A bid received after the last day and hour
named. or without the guaranty required by law and
a certificate as to the sufficiency of such guaranty,
cannot be considered In competition with q regular
| proposal reasonable in amount.
Il. 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 considered
Is. There should be but one route bid for in a pro-
posal. Consolidated or combination bids c.propos-
ing one sum for two or more rou.es") are forbidden
by law, and cannot be considered.
IA. The route, the service. the yearly pay, the
name and residence of the bidder, THAT is, his usual
post office address.) and those of each member of a
firm. where a company offers, should be distinctly
stated.
Is. Bidders are requested to use. as far rs practi-
| cable. the printed form of proposal furnished by the
department., to write out in iull the sum of their
bid. and to retain copies ofthem.
Altered bids should not be submitted; nor should
bids once submitted be Withdrawn. No withdrawal
p u1l N o11n~oA unIaS 6a-
ted 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
bid which may be deemed extravaganf, ana also TO
disregard the bids of tailing contraiors abdbidders.
10. The bid should be sealed, superscribed Mail
Proposals, State Of addressed Second AS
sistant General, Contract Office, and
sent by mail, not by or TO an agent; and postmasters
will not enclose proposals Tor letters OF any kInd) In
their quarterly returns. +,
IL. The contracts are to be executed and returned
m the department by or before the LIST day Of 4u-
aust. 1860; but the service must be commenced on
the Asst July preceding. or on the mail day next amer
that dlte, whether the con racts be execn,ea or not;
No proposition to transfer will be considered until
the contracts are executed and received at the de-
partment; and then no transfer will be allowed un-
less good and sufficient reasons therefor are given,
to be determined Dy the uel artHient S1SeS
the retiring contractor will be required to become
one of the sureties on the new contract.
IR. Postmasters at offices on or near railroads,
but more than eighty rods from a station, Will, I'm
mediately after tie 3Ist of March next, report their
exact distance from the nearest station. and how
they are otherwise supplied with the mail, 10 enable
the Postmaster General to direct o mail-messenger
supply from the lst of July next.
10. Section eighteen of an act of Congress ap-
proved March 3, 1913, provides that contracts for
the transportation of the mail shall be let III every
case to the lowest bidder rendering sufficient guar
antics for faithful performances, without other refer
ence to the mode of such transportation than may
be necessary to provide for the due celebrity, certain
ty, and security of such tran sportation." Under
-, - l,Is tbat nropOaa to franSDOrt the mail with