The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-03-22
INSTRUCTIONS,

Containing conditions to be incorporated in the
tracts to the ertent the department mag deem proper.
l. Seven minutes allowed to each interme
date office, when not otherwise specified, for as
sorting the mails; but on railroad and steamboat,
routes there is to be no more delay than is suffi-
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, to be conveyed without
charge, and for their exclusive use, while travel
ment in the centre of 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 d-
| rectiOn of the department..
railroad and steamboat comDanies 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 submitted for the performance of all other
side service - that is, for offices eighty rods
from station or landing. rHeasi.3H Sos
| Receipts will be required for mail bags con-
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-
paFtnent, 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 tn 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 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 grade Of per-
Torrance inferior to that specified in the contract
For repeated delinqueneies. of the kind herein
specific, enlarged penalties, proportional to the
nature thereof, and the importance Of the mail,
l. 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, q quarters pay may be
i 6. Fines viii be imposed. unless the delin
lquency be promptly and satisfactorily explained
by certificates Of Postmasters or the afidavits o
other credible persons, for falling to arrive in
contract time; for negieetng otaKe the mail from
or deliver it into post Office; for suffering it Il
bewet, injured destroy ,sobbed) orlost; and fol
refusing, after demand, to convey the mail as fire.
quently the contractor rams, or il concerned il
running coach ear. Or steamboat on q route.
Z. The Postmaster General may annuI the con
tract for repeated failures 70 run egreeably 20 con
tract; for violating the post Office laws, or disc
beylng the instructions of the department. for re
fusing to discharge carrier when req uired b.
the department to do so; for running an express
as aforesaid; or for Transporting persons PACK
ages conveying maileble matter out of the mail.
| 8. The Postmaster General may order AM in
crease OF service on route by allowing therefor
a pTD reta increase on the contract pays He may
change schedules OF departures and arrivals IN al
cases, and particularly to make them conform Il
connexions with railroads without increase of pay
; provided the running time be notabridged. HI
may also order an increase ofEspeed, Glowing
within the restrictions Of the Law, PRO Sota in
crease OF pay Tor le additional stock or carriers
if any. The con1 actor may, however, in thu
case Of increase OF speed, relinquish the contract
) by giving prompt notice to.the department tina
he prefers doing so to carrying the order into eff
feet. The Postmaster General may also curtail o.
sse act Of eoagpess Of March ), lsss seekieu Is