The Weekly Arizonian., 1869-12-04


 and for each of such omissions, satisfactorily explained, thTes times the pay of the tri1 may be deducted. For arrivals fsr behind t-ne as to break connection with depending mails, and nos sufficiently excused, fourth of the compensation for the trip is subject to forfeiture.
 Fines will bS imposed, uuless tho delinquency be promptly and satisfactorily explained by certis tcates or posmasterS or the afidayits ef other edible persons, for failing to arrive in contract time fer neglecting to take the mail from, or deliver 1t into, post office; for suffering it to bs wet, injufen, destroyed, robbed, or lost.
 The Postmaster General may annuI the contracts for repeated failures to agreeably to contracts for violating the post ofice laws, or disobsying the instructions of the department; for refusing to discharge carrier when requested by the depar- ment to do so; for assigning the eontrat without the assent of the Postmaster General or fr transporting persons or packages conveying mail- able matter out of the mall.
 The Postmaster General may order an increase of service on route by allowing therefor pro rata increase en the contact pay. He may change schedules of departures and arrivals in all cases and particularly to make them conform to eonnce- ons with railroads, without increase of pay, pro. vidod the running time be not abridged. He may also order iuci of speed, allowing, within the res rictionS of tho law pro rata increase of pay for the additional stock Or carriers, if any, The contractor may, however, in the ease of in> crease of speed, reinqdsh 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 diseontinue or curtail the erTice, in whole or part, in order to place on the route a greater degree of service, when. ever the public. in terests, in his judgment shall require such diseontinUance curtailment for any othor cause; he allowing fall indemnity to contractor enc months extra pay on the amount of service dispensed with, and a pro rata eom- pansaton for tho amount of service retained and continued
 Payments will be made for tho service by collsc- tions from or drafts on lOstmasters, or otherwise after the expiration Of each quarters V in Noe yember, February, May, and August. The distances are given according to the hest information; but no increase pay will be allowed should they oa greater than advertised, if ths points to be supplied be correctly stated Bidders must inform themselves on this point. Bidders are requested to use, as far us praeti- cable, the printed form of proposal furnished by the department, to write out in full the sum of their bids, and to retain copies of them.
 Each bid must be guaranteed by two rospon- sible persons.
 The bid should be sealed, superscrbed "Msil Proposals, Territory of Arizona'' addressed "Ss- cond Assistant Postmaster General, Contract 0hee," and tent by mail, not by or to an agent ;and POsmNsters vii! not enclose proposals Cor letters of any kind) in their quarterly returns
 The contracts are to bo ex scuted and returned to the department by or before the Igt of July 1869 but the service must be begun on that day. OF the next mail day thereafter, whether the contracts be executed or not. Transfers of con- tracts, interests in contracts, are forbidden by law, and consequently not allowed. Bidders Will therefore take notice that they wll be rec qnirel to perform the service accepted to them through the whole term of the contract.
 Section eighteen of an act of congress approved March 3, lS45, provides that contracts for the transportation of the mail shall be let, Gin every case, to the lowest bidder rendering sufficient guarantees for faithful performance, without oth- CT reference to tho mode of transportation than may be necessary to provide for the qua celerity, certainty, and security of snch transportation" Under this law, bids that propose to to transport tbe mail with "celerity, certainty, and security" having been CeeideI to be the only legal bids, are construed as providing for the entire mail, how- ever large, and whatever may be the mode of conveyance necessary to uTe it's "ceerity. cer-
 ainty, and security" and no others will be con- sidered. Except in the case of railroad and steam boat routes, bids naming any particular mode of conveyance are invariably rejected
 modification of bid in any of it's essential terms is tantamount to new bid and cannot be received, so as to interfere with Q regular con- petition, after the last hour set ter receiving bids. Making new bid with guarantee and certificate, is the only way to modify a previous bid. Postmasters are to be careful not to certify to the snfficiency of guarantors sureties without knowing that they are persons of sufficient respon- sibility disregard of this instruction by post masters is violation of their oath of office, subjecting them to immediate removal. All bid- ders, guarantors, and suretes 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 will be en- forced against them
 1 Present contractors, and persons known at the department, must, equally with others, procure cuarantors and certificates, of their suficency, in the forms above prescribed. The certificate of sufioiency must be signed by 8 postmaster, or by a judge of court of record; no other will bc admitted.
 JN0. A. CRESWELL, st Postmaster General.