The Weekly Arizonian., 1869-12-11
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and for each of such on ssionB, not satisfactorily explained, three times the pay of the trip may be deducted. For arrivals so far behind time as ts break connection with depending mails, and not sufficiently excused, sfourth of the compensation for the trip is subject to forfeiture.
 Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquency os pr mptly and satisfactorily explained by csru' hcates of posimasters or the affdavits et other er' dible persons for failing to arrive in contract time; for negleeting to take the mail from, or deliver 1t into, post office; for suffering II to o' wet, lnJuren, destroyed, robbed, or lost.
 The Postmaster General may annul the contract for repeated failures to agreeaby to contract; for violating the pest flee laws, or disObsylng the Instructions Of the department; for refusing to discharge carrier when requested by the depart~ nent to do so; for assigning the contrat withoat the assent of the Postmaster General or fur transporting persons or packages conveying maIl- able matter out of the mall.
 The P, stmas ter General may order increase of service on a route by allowing therefor pro rata increase on the contract pay. Hemay change schedules of departures and arrivals in all cases, and particularly to make them conform to eonnec-
 ons with railroads, without increase of pay, prO~ Tided the running time be not abridged. He may also order an incf ease of speed. allowing, within the res rietions of the law pro rata increase of pay for the additional stock or carriers, if any. The contractor may, however, in the case of iAS crease of speed, renquish the contract, by giving prompt notice to the department that ho prefers doing 80 to carrying the order into effect. The PoItmaster General may also discontinue or curtail the ervice. in whole or in part, in order to place on the route q greater degree of service, whens ever the public, in terests, in his judgment, shall require such diseontinuancs er curtaimsnt for any other cause; he allowing as full indemnity 10 contractor one months extra pay on the amount of service dispensed with, and pro rata com- pensation for the amount of service retained and continued.
 Payments wIll be made for the service by colIsc- tiOns from or drafts on Ostmasters, or otherwise after the expiration of each quarters in No- vember, February, May, and August.
 The distances given according to the best information; but no increase pay will be allowed should they os greater than advertised, if the points to be supplied be correctly stated. Bidders must inform themselves on this point.
 Bidders are requested ts use, as far vs practi- cable, the printed form of proposal furnished by the department to write out in Iall the sum of their bids, and to retain copies of them.
 Each bid must De guaranteed by two rsspon- sible persons.
 The bid should be sealed, superscribed "MaiI Proposals, Territory of Arizona" addressed "Se-- coma Assistant Postmaster General, Contract 0fice," and sent by mail not by or to an agent ;and PostRssters will not enclose proposals (or letterI of any kind) in their quarterly returns.
 The contracts are to be executed and returned 10 the department by or before the Ist of July, 1869 but the service must be begun on that day, or on the next mail day thereafter, whether the contracts be executed ar not Transfers of con- tracts, or O interests in contracts, are forbidden by law, and consequently not allowed. Bidders will therefore take notice that they will be re- quirel to perform the service accepted to them through the whole term of the contract.
 cnatiop nf, mi oF o-raz- .-,s-o-o1 March 3, lS45, provides that contracts for the transportation of ths mail shall be let. fin every case, to the lowest bidder tonderinc sufficient guarantees for faithful performance, without sth-- CT reference to tho mode of transportation than may be necessary to provide for the due ceIerity certainty, and security of sreh transportation" Under this lsw, bids thet propose to to transport the mail with "ceerity, certainty, and security" having been decided to be the only legal bids, are construed providing for the entire mail, how ! ever large, and whatever may be the mode of conveyance necessary to en ure it's "celerity cer- tainty, and security; ;' and others will be con- sidered. Except in the Of railroad and steam- boat routes, bids naming any particular mode of conveyance ars invariably rejected | modification of G bid in sny of it's essential ! terms is tantamount to new bid ard cannot be received, so as to interfere with c regular com- petition, after the last hour Set for receiving bds Making new bid with guarantee end csztifcate, is the only way to modify previous bid l Pcstmasters arc to b. careful rot to certify to the suficiency of guarantors sGretio, without knowing that they persons of safoeie1t respOn- sibility disregard of this instruction by post, masters is violation of their cath of office subjeetng them to immediate removal. All bid
 Gers guarGnto-s, and sureties distinctly noti~
 fed that on failure to enter into CT perform
 the contracts for tho service proposed for in the
 accepted bids, their legal liabilities wiH be en-
 forced against them.
 Present contractors. and persoEs known at the
 department, must, equally with others, procure
 guarantors and certificates, Of their suiHciency, in the forms above prescribed. The certificate of
 sudicency must be signed by c postmaster, or by
 a judge of g court of record; no other will be
 admitted.
 JNO. A. CRESWELL,- 7 Ct Postmaster General,