Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1864-01-14

! EMAIL Proposals, State of -" addressed
Second Assistant Postmaster General, Cor
tract Office" and sent by mail, not by or to
an agent; and postmasters will not enclose
proposals Tor letters of any kind) in their
quarterly returns.
II. The contracts are to be executed and
returned to the department by or before the
Isl tag Of July 1864; but tie service must
he commenced on that day, or on the mail
day next after it, whether the contracts be
executed or not.
Transfers Of contracts, or of interest in
contracts, are forbidden by law, and conse-
queniy cannot be allowed. Bidders will
therefore take notice that they will be ex-
pccted to perform the service accepted to
them through the whole term Of the con-
tract.
10. p stmas.crs at offices on or near rail-
roads, but more than eighty rods from
station, will Immediately after 31st OF March
next, report their exact distance from the
nearest station, and how they are otherwise
supplied with the mail, to enable the Post
master General to direct mal>messcnGer
supply from the LIST OF July next.
10. Section eighteen of an act OF Congress
approved March 8. 1916, provides that con-
tracts for the transportation Of mail shall be
let, sin every case, To the lowest bidder ten
dering sufficient guarantees for faithful per-
Torrance, without other reference to the
mode Of such transportation than may be
necessary t" provide for the due CELEBRITY,
certainty. and security of such transporta-
ton" Under This lar, bids that propose 10
transport The mails WM "celeriiy, certainty,
and security hduing been decided 10 be The
only legal bids, are construed as prociding
for the entire mail. howerer large, and rhat-
erer may be tie mode Of Conveyance necessary
TO insure its 'celer:fy; certainty, and security
and riU hare the preference orer all others
and no others pW be considered.
20. A modification of bid in any of IFS
essential terms is tantamount to a new lid,
and cannot be received so as to infere with
regular competition, after the last hour set
for receiving bids. Making new bid, with
guarantee and certificate, is the only way to
modify previous bid.
81. Pcstmasters are TO be careful not to
certify to the sufficient responsibility; dis
regard ofhis instruction by postmasters as a
rotation Of their oath Of office, suyecting
them TO immediate removal All bidders
guarantors, and sureiies are distinctly nvti-
fed that on a failure t. enter into or perform
the contracts for the service proposed for in
the accepted bids, their legal liabilities will
be enforced against them.
%. Present cot tract RS, and persons known
at the department, must equally with others
procure guarantors and certifcrtes of their
suflicicncy subsiant ally in the forms above
prescribed. The certificate Of efficiency
must be signed by postmaster or by
judge Of court Of record, and must have
affixed to it a five.cent lcvcnre stamp, can
celed, a required by law. NJ other certif
ica.es will be admitted
NJ. BLAIR,
Postmaster General
BY Tie 42d sectio"gf act Of Congress
"to amend the lars rotating TO tie Port
Of;re Department." opproccd .Harch 3.
1868, NIL communications addressed TO
either Of The ,.rec"tirc departments ofh-
yorernmea ''must be prepaid by postage
stamps" Proposals should. therefore,
be thus prtpaid, unicss franz perso b.
phom authority to frank mail mater is