Owyhee tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1869-1870, 1869-11-18

INC CohtfdCts 70 Lsc txttas tie DtpurMcHs
may deem proper.
Seven minutes arc allowed TO each inter.
mediate Office, when not other Mise specified,
for opening and examining the mails.
No pay viii be made for trips not perform
cd; and for each OF such omiss ons, not sat
isfaciorily explained, three times the pay Of
the trip may be deducted. For arrivals SO
far behind lime as to break connection with
depending mails, and not sufficiently excus-
ed, one-iours Of the compensation for the
trip is subject to forfeiture,
Fines Will be imposed, unless the deiinquen-
| cy be promptly and satisfactorily explained
by certificates Of postmasiers or The atiidayils
/ OF other credible persons, for failing TO ar
rive in contract time; for neglecting TO take
the mail from, or deliver il into postollice;
! for suffering It to be wet, injured, destroyed,
robbed or lost
The Postmaster General may annui tho
contract for repeated failures to run agreea-
/ bly, TO contract for violating the postoiiice
! laws, or disobeying the Instructions Of the
department; Tor refusing 10 discharge car
rier when requested by the department to do
! so; for assigning the contract Without the
assent OF the Postmaster General; or for
| transporting persons or Packages conveying
mailab matter out Of the mail.
The Postmaster General may order an in
! crease OF service on n route by allowing
4 therefor pro rata increase on the contract
I pay. He may change schedules Of depart
ures and arrivals IN all cases, and particular
I ly 10 make them CONFORM TO connections
F.. with railroads. without increase OF pay,
7 provided the running time be not abridged
/ The Postmaster General may also discontinue
OF curtail tho service, in whole or in part,
I III order to place on the route greater de-
I gree OF service, or whenever the public in
\ tercsts, in his Judgment, shall require such
discontinuance or curtailment for any other
csInse heallowing as full indemnityt0 con
tractor one months extra pay on the amount
Of service dispensed with, and a pro rata
| compensation far the amount OF service re-
/ tanned and continued.
! Payments viii be made for the service by
/ collections from or drafts on poslmasters, or
/ Otherwise after the expiration OF each quar-
! tGr-say in November, February, May, aud
/ August
I The distances are giv'n according 10 the
I 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 inforHs them
4 stfrCs on tbs poiat
/ Bidders are requested to use. as far as
| practicable, the printed form Of proposal
7 furnished by the department, to write out III
| full the sum Of their bids, aud 10 retain cop
( los Of them.
J Each bid must be guaranteed by two re
F., sponsible persons
| The bid should be sealed, superscribed
! 8 Mail Proposals. Territory of Idaho" al
dressed Second Assistant Postmaster Gen
! erai Contract Office and sent Ny matt, not
| by or 10 an agent; and postmasters will not
/ incl0-e proposals Tor 'etters Of amy kind IN
! their quarterly returns
( The contracts are 20 be executed and re-
turned to the department by or beiqre The
/ 1st Of July, 1870; but the servire must be
/ begun on that day, or on the next mail day
thereafter, whelherthe contracts be executed
or not. Transfers of contracts, Or OF inter
ds,s in contracts, are forbidden by law, and
{ consequently cannot be allowed Bidders
will therefore take notice that they viii be
required to perform the service accepted 10
them through the Whole term Of the con
! tract
Section eighteen Of an act Of Congress az
proved March 3, 1915 provides that contracts
for the transportation Of the mails shall be
let, .'in every case, TO the lowest bid Ter
rendering sufficient guarantees for laillifl
performance without other reference 10 the
mode Of such transportation than niay lie
necessary TO provide Tor the due ce'erity, scr
tanty and security Of such transportation. y
Under this law, bids THAI propose 10 transport
: the mail with -'celerity. ceriaimty and securi
ty.' having been decided to be tie ouly legl
bids, are construed as providing for the en-
tire mail. however large. and whatever may
be- the mode Of conveyance necessary 10 in
sure its " celebrity, certainty, and security -
and no others will be considered Except IN
The case OF railroad and Steamboat routes.
bids naming 0lsy particular mode q ceHrey-
ance are Invariably rejected.
4 modIlicati N of a bid in any Of lis essen
tial terms is tantamOnnt to a new bid, and
cannot be received, 50 as to interfere wl.h
regular competition, after the last hour set
for receiving bids Making a new lid. with
guarantee and certificate, is the only way 10
modify previous bid,
Posimasters are TO be careful not TO certify
to the suffice ncy Of guarantnrs or surelics
without knowing that th"y are persons OF
sufficient responsibility; a disregard Of E.ls
instruction BIZ postmGStsrs is a sriOtation 81
their oath Of Office, snIjecting them to imne
Iiats remocqi All bidders, guarnlors, and
a.ureties are distinctly notified that on fail
urc to enter into or perform the c0ntraGts Tor
The service proposed for IN the ae-
eer,cd bids. their lega. liabilities will be en-
forced agains, them
Present contractors. and persons known
at the department, must equally with others.
procure luaranlOKs anu certificates OF their
suficicncy substantially in the forms above
prescribed. The certificate Of sniiiciency must
he signed by postmaster, or hF judge OF a
court Of record; no other will be admitted
JN0 a. J. CRESWELL,
o-,aa ySacfn1uSfs, General