The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-03-29
Guarantee,
INSTRUCTIONS,

Containing conditions to be incorporated in the
tracts tn the etent the department may deem proper
l. Seven minutes are allowed to each interme-
date office, when not otherwise specified, for as
sorting the nails 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 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-
companylng 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 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-
recton of the department..
Railroad and steamboat companies are required
to take the mail from and deliver it into the post
ohces 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 thu is, for offices eighty rods
rom a station or landing.
Receipts will be required for mail bags cor
yeyed 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.
A. 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
to break connection with depending mails, and
not sufficiently excused, one-fourth of the compen
sation for the trip is subject to forfeiture De-
duction viii also be ordered for grade Of per
IN that in he
For repeated delinqueneies Of the kind herein
specified, enlarged penalties. proportioned 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, a quarters pay may be
deducted. - Ha-Ise.
6. Fines will be imposed, unless the delin-
queney be promptly and satisfactorily explained
by certificates of postmasters the afidavits OF
other credible persons, for failing to arrive In
contract time; for neglecting to take theaii from
OF 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.
quently as the contractor runs, is concerned In
running, coach, car, or steamboat on o route.
z. The Postmaster General may annul the con-
tract for repeated failures to agreeably to
tract; for violating the post Office laws, DISC
beying the instructions of the department.: for re-
fusiDg to discharge s carrier when required by
the department to do so; for running an express
- 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 route by allowing therefor
a pro rata increase on the contract pay. BE 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,
within the restrictions of the law, pro gata in
crease Of pay for the additional stock carriers
il any. The contractor may, however, in the
ease Of increase Of speed reIinquish the contract
he prefers doing to carrying the order into ef-
feet. The Postmaster General may also eurtsil or
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