Owyhee tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1869-1870, 1869-11-04
INSTRUCTIONS:

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Seven minutes are SLOWED to each inter
mediate Office, when not otherwise specified,
for opening and examining the mails
No pay will be made for trips net perform
ed; and for each Of such omissions, not sat
isfactorly explained, three times the pay of
the trip may be deducted For arrivals so
far behind time as 10 break connection with
depending mails, and not sufficiently excus
ed, one-fourth of the compensation for the
trip is subject to forfeiture.
Fines will be imposed, unless the Delinquent
cy be promptly and satisfactorily explained
by certificates Of postmasters or the afiidayiis
Of other credible persons, for falling TO ar
rive in contract time; for neglecting TO take
the mail from, or deliver it into postofiice;
for suffering il TO be wet, injured, destroyed,
robbed or lost
The Postmaster General may annul the
contract for repeated failures TO run agreed
bly, to contract; for violating the postoifice
laws or disobeying the instructions OF the
department; for refusing to discharge a car
rier when requested by the department TODD
so; for assigning the contract without the
assent OF the Postmaster General; or for
transporting persons or packages conveying
mailable matter out Of the mail.
The Postmaster General may order an in
crease OF service on a route by allowing
therefor pro rata increase on the contract
pay. He may change schedules of depart
ures and arrivals in all cases, and particular
ly to make them conform TO connections
with railroads, without increase OF pay.
provided the running time be not abridged
The Postmaster General may also discontinue
or curtail the service, in whole or in part,
in order to place on the route greater de-
gree Of service, or whenever the public in
| terests, in his judgment, shall require such
| discontinuance or curtailment for any other
cause he allowing as full indemnity to con
tractor one months extra pay on the amount
OF service dispensed with, and pro rata
compensation for the amount Of service re-
tanned and continued
Payments will be made for the service by
collections from or drafts on postmasters, or
otherwise, alter the expiration of each quar-
! ter-say in November. February, May, and
August.
The distances are given according to the
/ best information; but no increase of pay
will be allowed should they be greater than
advertised, if the points TO be supplied be
correctly stated. Bidders must inform hen
| selres on this point
Bidders are requested TO use, as far as
practicable, the printed form OF proposal
| furnished by the department, to write out in
! full the sum of their bids, and to retain cop
! les of them.
Each bid must be guaranteed by two re
sponsible persons.
The bid should be sealed, superscrbed
"Mail Proposals. Territory of Idaho, y ad
dressed Second Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral. Contract Office. y and sent by mani, not
4 by or to an agent; and postmasters will not
/ inclose proposals Tor letters Of any kind in
their quarterly returns
The contracts are to be executed and re
turned to the department by or before the
II LIST of July, 1870; but the service must he
begun on that day, or on the next mail day
thereafter whether the contracts be executed
or not Transfers Of contracts, or Of inter
/ ests in contracts are forbidden by law, and
consequently cannot be allowed. Bidders
| will therefore take notice thai they will be
required to perform the service accepted TO
them through the whole term of the con
tract
? Section eighteen Of an act of Congress APP
proved March 3. 1916. provides that contracts
for the transportation Of the mails shall be
let, in every case, TO the lowest bidder
rendering sufficient guarantees for faithful
| performance without other reference to the
mode Of such transportation than may he
necessary TO provide for the due celebrity, Ger
tainty and security Of such transportation.
Under this law, bids that propose 10 transport
the mail with .'celerily. certainty. and secun-
tv. = having been decided to be the only legal
bids. are construed as providing for the en-
tire mail, however large, and whatever may
be the mode Of conveyance necessary TO in
sure its q celebrity, certainty, and security >
and no others will be considered Except IN
the case Of railroad and steamboat routes,
bids naming any particular mode Of conpey-
ance are Invariably rejected.
A modification of bid in any OF its essen
tiaI terms is tantamount to new bid, and
cannot be received. so as to interfere with a
regular competition, after the last hour set
for receiving bids Making new hid, with
guarantee and certificate. is the only way to
modify previous bid.
Postmasters are to be careful not TO certify
10 the suftic'ency of guarantors or sureties
without knowing that they are persons Of
sufficient responsibility; a disregard Of his
instruction On posimdsters is a Probation Of
their oath Of office, Stbjecting then, 10 fmn'e.
diate TeBtordl All bidders, guaraniors, and
surnties are distinctly notified that on fail
IRE to enter into or perform the contracts i"f
the service proposed for IN the &C
cepted bids, their legal liabilities viii De en-
forced against them.
Present contractors and persons known
at the department, must equally with others,
nrocure guarantors and certificates OF their
sufhciency substantially in the forms above
prescribed The certificate of sufiicency must
be signed by postmaster, or By judge OF
court of record; no other will be admitted.
JNO. A. J. CRESWEIL,
sstao Postmaster General