The Portland daily press., 1869-02-01

INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS AND POST
MASTkpS

Containing also conditions to be Incorporated in the
contracts to the ertent The department may deem
proper.
l. Seven minutes are allowed to each intermediate
Office when not otherwise spe ited for asserting he
mails; but ON railroad and steamboat routes there
Is 10 be no more delay than is sufficient Tor
2 On railroad and steamboat lines, and other
routs wneie the mode OF conveyance admits OF il,
the special agents or The Post Once Department al
so post office blanks, mail bags, locks and KEYS an
to be conveyed without extra charge.
8. On railroad and steamboat lines the route
agents Of the department, also the British and Can
ada malls when offered, and the agents accom- pany-
Ing them, are conveyed without charge; and or the
use Of the United states agents cUmmodious car
or part OF car, properly lighted, warmed and fur
nished and adapted 10 the convenient separation and
Que security OF the mails, Is TO be provided by the
contractor, under the direction Of the department.
Railroad and steamboat companies ale required
TO take the mail from and deliver 1t into the pst or
hce at the beginning aud end of their routes and 10
and from all of1ces 10. more than eighty rods from
station or landing. Proposals may be submitted
by the com panies for performance of ali oIber
side service-that is, for offices eighty rods from
a station or landing.
There will be way billsD prepared nv nostmas
ters or other agents of the Department, to accom-
pany the mails conveyed Dads and steamer rs
specifying the number and destination of the sever
al bags On other principal routes, likewise, re-
ceipts will be rquired eaud way bills forwarded the
latter TO De examined by the several posImasIers 10
insure regularity in the delivery of mails.
4. No pay Will be made tor trips not performed
and for each Of such omissions not satisfactorily ex
planned, three times the pay of the trip will he d.,
quoted. For arrivals far behind time IA To hra.L
connexion with depending mails, and not sutci.n
excused, nefourth OF the conn ensaion Tor Tho
Is subject 10 forfeiture. For repeated deinou. ne
OF the Kind herein specified enlarged penalties ,ro'
Porloned to the nature thereof, and the imnori -
OF the mail, may be M de. JANICE
o. For leaving behind or throwing off tho malta
or any portion of them for the admissian Of n.aasn
gers or Tor being concerned ia setting no or running
an conveying Intelligence in advance OF the
mail quarters pay will be deducted
y. rHes Will De imposed, unless, the delinquency
~ sa'lsiaoturny explained by certificates OF post
quo OF the aihdavts of otter credible persons,
iot Iauny TO arrive contract time; Tor negleetng
W TAKE the mall from, deliver it into, post once
o suffering to be wet, injured destroyed foOoed,
OF lostj and for refusing, after demahd 10 convey
the mail frequently the contractor runs, or Is
concerned in running coach, car, or steamboat on
route.
T. The Postmaster General may annul the con-
tract for repeated failures to run agreeaby 10 con-
tract; Tor violating the post office laws, or Uisobey
ing the IN structions OF the DEPARTMENT.; refusing
to dis barge carrier when required by the Depar,-
ment to d. 50; Tor running express as aort said
or tor transporting persons or packages conveying
mailable matter out OF Jne mail.
s, The Postmaster General may order an increase
OF service on route by allowing therefor pro ra.a
ules of departures and arrivals In all cases, and
particularly to make them conform to connexions
with railroads, without increase OF paw Drowned
the running time be not abrdged. He NAV also or
der an increase OF speed, allowing, with n III, re-
strietons o. the law pro rata increase of paw tor
the additional stock or carriers, il any. Nh. con-
tractor may, however, IN the case of increose or
speed reinquish the contract by giving PROMPT no
tce to the department that he pre- ieIs doing so 10