The Weekly Arizonian., 1869-11-20

No pay will be made for trips not performed; and for each of such omissions, no satisfactorily explained three times the pay of the trip may be deducted. For arrivals So far behind time as to break connection with depending mails, and not sufficiently excused, Onefourth Of the compensation for the tripis subject to forfeiture.
 Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquency oe promptly and satisfactorily explained by csrtis hcates of pos,masters or the afidayits eff other credible persons for falling to arrive in contract time; for negleeting to take the mail from, or deliver it into, post office; for suffering it to be wet injuren, destroyed robbed, or lost.
 Tho Postmaster General may anrul the contracts for repeated failures to run agreeaby to contracts for violating the post cfice laws, or disobeying the instructions of the department; for refusing to discharge carrier whenrequested by the depart- ment to do so; for assigning tho contrat without the assent of the Postmaster General; or IT transporting persons or packages conveying mail" able matter out of the mail.
 The Postmaster General may order m increase of service a route by allowing therefor pro rata increase tho contract pay. He may change schedules If departures and arrivals in all cases and particularly to make them conform to connec- ons with railroads, without increase of pay pro. vided tho running time be not abridged. He may also order an increase of speed, allowing, within the restrictions of the law pro rata increase of nav for the additional stock or carriers if any, Ina contractor may, however, in the case of inS crease of spced relinquish the contract, by giving prompt notice to the department that he prefers doing so to carrying the order into effect. The Postmaster General may also discontinue or curtail the service, in whole or iH part, in order to place on the route Q greater degree of service, when. ever the public, interests, in his judgment shall | require suchdiseontinuanes curtailmsnt for any 1 other cause; he allowing as full indemnity to contractor months extra pay on the amount | of service dispensed with, and pro rata con- l nan aatiO tha If al I continued.
 Payments will be made for the service by coIleo- tiOns from or drafts on sstmasters, or otherwise after the expiration of each quarter-say in No- vember, February, May, and August. 1 The distances are given according to the best | information; but no increase pay will be allowed should they oe greater than advertised, if the points to be supplied be correctly stated, Bidders must inform themselves on this point.
 Bidders arc requested ts use, as far rs praeti- cable, the printed form of proposal furnished by their bids, and to retain copies of them.
 Each bid must be nteed by two rsspOns Eible persons,
 l The bid should be scaled, superscribed "MaiI l Proposals, Territory of Arzona,' addressed "Ss- | cond Assistant Postmaster General, Contract 1 0fice," and sent by mail, not by to an agent sand Postmasters will not enclose proposals tor letters of any kind) in their quarterly returns.
 The contracts are to be executed and returned to the department by or before the lst of July, 1869 but the service must be begun on that day, | or on tAe next mail day thereafter, whether the contracts be executed or not. Transfers of con- ttracts, O. interests in contracts, forbidden l by law, and consequently not allowed. Bidders will therefore take notice that they will be re- quirei to perform the service accepted to them | throuph the whole term of tho contract | Section eighteen of an act of congress approved March 3, 1845, provides that contracts for the transportation of the mail shall be let, Gin every l case, to the lowest bidder tondcring sufficient guarantees for faithful performance, without eth- CT reference to the mode of transportation than may be necessary to provide for the due celerity, certainty, and security of snch transportation" Under this law, bids that propose to to transport the mail with "celerity, certainty, and security" having been decided to be the only legal bids, construed providing for the entire mail, how- ever large, and whatever may be the mode of conveyance necessary to sure its "celerty. cer- l tainty, and security ' and others will be sidered. Except in the of railroad and steam- boat routes, bids naming any particular mode of conveyance are invariably rejected.
 1 modification of a bid in any of it's essential l terms is tantamount to a new bid and cannot be received, so as to interfere with regular con- petition, after the last hour set for receiving bds Making new bld Wltn guarantee ana cerGlncate, is the only way to modify previous bid Postmasters are to be careful not to certify to the suficiency of guarantors or sureties without knowing that they are persons of sufficient respon sibility disregard of this instruction by post- masters is a violation of their oath of office, subiecting them to immediate removal. All bid- dsrs guarantors and sureties are distinctly noti~ fled that on a failure to enter into or perform the contracts for the service proposed for in the accepted bids, their legal liabilities will be en- forced against them.
 Present contractors, and persons known at the department, must, equally with others, procure guarantors and certificates, of their sufieieneJ, in tho forms above prescribed. The certificate of suficiency must be signed by postmaster, or by a judge of court of record; no other will be admitted. -
 JNO. A. .CRESWELL, St Postmaster General,