The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-04-12
INSTRUCTIONS.

Containing conditions to be incorporated tn the con-
tracts to the eTtent the department may deem proper
!. Seven minutes are allowed to each interme-
date office, when not otherwise specified, for
sorting the mails; but on railroad and steamboat
routes there is to be more delay than is suffi-
cient for an exchange of the mail bags.
2 On railroad and steamboat lines, and other
routes where the mode of conveyance admits of 1T,
the special agents of the Post Office Department,
also post Office BLANKS, mail bags LOCKS and Keys,
are to be conveyed without extra charge.
B. On railroad and steamboat lines the route
agents of the department. also the British and
Canada mails, when offered, and the agents ac-
companylng them, are to be conveyed without
charge and for their exclusive use, while travel
ing with the mails, a ccmmodious car, or apart
ment In the centre of a car, properly lighted.
warmed, and furnished and adapted to the con
venlent separation and due security of the mails,
is to be provided by the contractor, under the di-
rection of the department.
railroad and steamboat companies are required
10 take 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 a station or landing. Proposals
may be submitted for the performance of all other
slde 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 railroad
companies. There will also be g way bills y pre-
pared by postmasters, or other agents of the de-
partment, to accompany the mails, specifying the
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 viii 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
to break connection with depending mails. and
not sufficiently excused, 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 delinquencies of the kind herein
specified, enlarged penalties, proportional to the
nature thereof, and the importance of the mail,
may be made. go e
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.
6. Fines will be imposed, unless the delin.
quency be promptly and satisfactorily explained
by certificates of postmasters the affidavits OF
other credible persons, for FILLING to arrive in
contract time for neglectng to take the mail from
or deliver it into post office; for suffering it to
be wet injured, destroyed, robbed, or lost and for
refusing, after demand, to convey the mail as fire.
quent1Y the contractor runs, or is concerned In
running, coach, ear. or steamboat on route
q. The Postmaster General may annul the con-
tract for repeated failures to agreeably to
tract for violating the post Office laws, or DISC
beying the instructions of the department; for re-
fnsing to discharge carrier when required by
| the department to do so; for running an express
as aforesaid; or for transporting persons pacK-
ages conveying mailable matter out of the mail.
| 8. The Postmaster General may order an in
crease of service on route by allowing therefor
a pro rGfG increase on the contract pay He may
change schedules of departures and arrivals in ali
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 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
ease of increase Of speed, relinqush 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 eurtail or