The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-03-08
INSTRUCTIONS,

Containing conditions to be incorporated in the
tracts tn the extent the department mag deem proper.
/. Seven minutes allowed to each interme-
date office, when not otherwise specified. for
sorting the mails; but on railroad and steamboat
routes there is to be no more delay than Is suff-
Gent for an exchange of the mail bags.
2. On railroad and steamboat lines, and other
routes where the mode of conveyance admits of it.,
the special agents of the Post Office Department,
also post Office blanks, mail bags, LOCKS, and keys,
are to be conveyed without extra charge.
3. On railroad and steamboat lines the route
agents of the department. also the British and
Canada mails, when offered, and the agents ac-
companying them, are to be conveyed without
charge, and for their exclusive use, while travel
ing with the mails, commodious car, or apart
ment in the centre of car, properly lighted,
warmed, and furnished and adapted to the con-
yenlent separation and due security of the mails,
is to be provided by the contractor under the di-
rectlon of the department.
Railroad and steamboat companies 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 submitted for the performance of all other
side service - that is, for offices eighty rods
from station or landing.
Receipts will be required for mail bags cor
veyed in charge of persons employed by railroa
companies. There will also be way bills pre-
pared by postmasters, or other agents of the de-
partment, to accompany the mails, specifying the
number 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 postmasters, to in
sure 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
explained, three times the pay of the trip may
be deducted. For arriva Is so far behind time as
to break connexion with depending mails, and
not sufficiently excused one-fourth of the compen-
sation for the trip is subject to forfeiture. De-
duction will also be ordered for a grade Of per-
Torrance inferior to that specified in the contract
For repeated delinq of the kind herein
specified, enlarged penalties, propordoned to the
nature thereof, and the importance Of the mail,
may be made.
S. For leaving behind, or throwing off the
mails, or any portion of them, for the admission
of passengers, or for being concerned in setting
up or running an express conveying intelligence
| in advance of the mail, quarters pay may be
deducted.
g. Fines will be imposed, unless the delin.
quency be promptly and satisfactorily explained
by certificates of postmasters or the afhdavits OF
other credible persons, for failing to arrive in
or deliver it into post office; for suffering it to
be wet, injured, destroyed robbed, lost and for
refusing, after demand, to convey the mail as fire.
quently as the contractor runs, is concerned in
running, coach, ear, or steamboat q route.
Z. The Postmaster General may annul the con-
tract for repeated failures to agreeaby to
tract; for violating the post Office laws, DISC
beying the instructions of the department: for
| fusing to discharge carrier when required by
the department to do so; for running an express
as aforesaid or for transporting persons or pacK-
ages conveying mailable matter out Of the mail
| 8. The Postmaster General may order an in
crease of service on q route by allowing therefor
q 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
connexions with railroads without increase of pay
provided the running time be not abridged. He
may also ordersan 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 to carrying the order into eff
feet. The Postmaster General may also curtail or