The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-02-22
INSTRUCTIONS,

Containing conditions TO be incorporated in tie
tracts to the cTtent the department may deem proper
l. Seven minutes are allowed to each interme-
d1ate office, when not otherwise specified, for
sorting the mails; but on railroad and steamboat
routes there is to be more delay than is suffi-
clent for an exchange of the mail bags.
2. On railroad and steamboat lines, and other
routes where the mode of veyance 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 &C
companying them, are to be conveyed without
charge, and for their exclusive use, while travel
ing with the mails, ccmmodious car, or apart
ment IN the centre of car, properly lighted,
warmed, and furnished and adapted to the con-
venient separation and due security of the mails,
Is to be provided by the contractor under the di-
rection of the department.
Railroad and steamboat comDanies are required
to taRe the mail from and deliver it into the post
ofhces at the commencement and end of their
routes, and to and from all offices not more than
eighty rods from station or landing. Proposals
may be submitted for the performance of all other
side service that is, for Offices over eighty rods
rom a station or landing
Receipts will be required for mail bags cor
! veyed In charge of persons employed by railroad
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
rot sufficiently excused, one-fourth of the compen
sation for the trip is subject to forfeiture. De-
duction will also be ordered for grade Of per-
Torrance inferior to that specified IN the contract
For repeated delinq of the kind herein
specified, enlarged penalties, proportional to the
nature thereof and the Importance of the mail.
may be made.
5. For leaving behind, or throwing IF the
mails. or any portion of them, for the admission
of passengers, OF for being concerned in setting
up running express conveying intelligence
in advance of the mail, a quarters pay may be
deducted.
6. Fines will be imposed, unless the delin-
quency be promptly and satisfactorily explained
by certificates of pestmasters the affidayits oi
other credible persons, for failing to arrive IL
contract time; for negecting TO taKe the mail fron.
or deliver 1t into post Office for suffering 1t to
be wet, I'M ured destroyed, robbed, lost and for
refusing, after demand, to convey the mail fire.
quenty as the contractor runs, or is concerned In
running, a coach, car, or steamboat route.
T. The Postmaster General may annul the con-
tract for repeated failures to agreeaby to
tract; for violating the post Office laws, or DISC
beying the instructions Of the department. for re-
fusing to discharge carrier when required by
| the department to do SO; for running an express
as aforesaid; for transporting persons or TaeK-
ages conveying mailable matter out Of the mail.
g. The Postmaster General may order an in
crease of service on a route by allowing therefor
pro rata increase on the contract pay. He may
change schedules of departures and arrivals in all
eases, and particularly to make them conform to
connexions with railroads without increase of pay.
provided the running time be not abridged. He
may also order an increase of speed, allowing,
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crease of pay for the additional stock or carriers
if any. The contractor may. however, In the
case of increase ofspeed, relinqush the contract,
he Prefers doing 50 to carrying the order into ef
feet. The Postmaster General may also eurtail or