New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-31
NEW ORLEANS BFf0BLIcA An SATURDAY DRCEfBEB 81 1870
OFFICIAL NOTICES.


side service-that is, for Offices ever eighty rods
from q landing.
!: No pay VIII be made for trips mot perfSrza;
explained, three times the pay Of the trip viii
deducted. For arrivals 70 3ar behind time = 70
break connection with depan6ing malls, and not
ton for the trip is subject TO forfeiture Fer re1
peated delinqueneies Of the kind herein specified
enlarged penalties proporhoned 70 the nature
thereof, aud the Importance OF the mail, may be
made.
s. For leaving behind or throwing off the mails,
sengers or for being concerned in setting up or
running an express conveying intelligence in ad-
vance OF the mail, quarters pay may be de-
Quoted.
.. Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquency
be promptly and satisfactorily explained BY certiii
gates OF pos1masters OF tne OF Otnea ,
for neglectng to take the mail from or deliver 1t
INTO pos,otce; for suffering it to be wet, injured,
mand to convey the mail as frequently as the con-
tractor rms, or is concerned in running. coach,
car OF steamboat on route.
Z. The Postmaster General may annul the con-
tract for peated failures to run agreeably TO con-
tract; ior violating the postofoe laws, OF disobey-
ing the instructions of the Department.; for refus-
partment to do so; for running an express az afore-
said, or for transporting persons or packages con
veying mailable matter ont Of the mail.
s. The Postmaster General may order an increase
Of service en- a route by allowing therefor d pro
rata increase on the contract pay. He may change
schedules o! departures and arrivals IN all cases,
and particularly to make them conform TO connec.
tons with railroads. without increase Of pay, pro-
vided the running time be not abridged. The Post
service, in whole in part in order to place on the
route superior service, or whenever the public in
tinuance curtailment for any other cause; he
allowing as full indemnity to contractor one
months extra pay On the amount Of service dis
penseI with, and a pro rata compensation for the
amount OF service retained and continued.
g. Payments will be made by collections from, or
drafts on, postmasters or otherwise after the eS-
piratiOn of each Quarter-say IN November, Feb
ruary, May and August.
10. The distances are given according 10 the best
iniornatlon; but no increased pay will be allowed
should they be greater than advertised, if the
points to Oe supplied are correctly stated. Bidders
must inform themselves on this point, and also in
reference TO the weight Of the mail the condition
Of roads hills, streams, etc. and all toll-bridges;
turnpikes plank roads, ferries, distinctions OF
any kind BY which expense may be incurred; N. No
be considered; nor Tor alleged mistakes or mlsal'-
prebensIon as to the degree OF services. nor for
bridges destroyed ferries discontinued or other
distractions causing or increasing distance or ex-
pense occurring during the contract term. Offices
established after this advertisement Is issued, and
also during the contract term, are 70 bo visited
without extra paw, if the distance be not IL
creased.
H. Bidders are cautioned to mail their proposals
in time to reuch the Department by the day and
hour named 6 r. NJ, March ], 1911 for bids re-
ceived after that time viii not be considered in
ceived in time. Neither can bids be considered
which are without the guarantee required by law,
and q certificate OF the suticency Of such guaran-
tee.
II. Bidders should first propose for service strict
ly according to the advertisement, and then, il
they desire separately for different service and if
the regular bid be the lowest offered for the adver
tised service the other propositions may be con-
sidered.
proposal. Consolidated or combination bids cprO-
posing one sum for two OF more routes are for
hidden by law. and can not be considered.
IA. The route, the service, the yearly pay, the
and residence OF the bidder that H. his usual
postoftce address,, and the name of each member
OF a firm, where a. company offers, should be dis
tinctly stated
Is. Bidders requested to use, as far as prae.
ticable the printed proposals. furnished by the De
partment to write out III full the sum Of their bids,
and to retain copies of them.
Altered bids should no. be submitted, nor should
bids once submitted be withdrawn. No Withdrawal
Of bidder guarautOr will be allowed unless the
withdrawal is dated and received before the last
day for receivin. proposals.
Each bid must be guaranteed by two responsible
persons. The bid and guarantee ehould be signed
plainly with the full name Of each person.
The Department reserves the right to reject any
disregard the bids OF failing contractors and bid
ders. {Act OF July 2, 1885, section &.)
l6 The bid should be sealed, snperscrjeed Mai,
Proposals, State of Louisiana" addressed " Second
Assistant Postmaster General Contract Office and
sent by mail, not by or to an agent.
u. The contracts are to he executed and returned
TO the Department by before the first day Of July
1871 but the service must be begun on that day or
the mail day next after it, whether the contracts
Transfers of contracts or Of interest in contracts
are forbidden by law, and consequently can not be
allowed. Neither can bids, or interest IN bids, be
transferred OF assigned to other parties. Bidders
will therefore take notice that they will be expected
to perform the service accepted to them through
the whole term Of the contract
18. Section eighteen of an act of approved
March g. ls45, provides that contracts tor the
transportation of the mail shall be let, IS in every
guarantees for faithful performance, without other
reference to the mode of such transportation than
may be necessary to provide for the due CELEBRITY
certainty, and security of such transportation. II
Under this law bids that propose to transport the
mails with celebrity, certainty, and security hav
ing been decided to be the only legal bids aiycon
Large and whatever may be the mode OF convey
ance necessary to insure its i" celebrity, certainty
and security" and have the preference over all
others and no others are considered, except !or
steamboat routes.
10. A modification o: bid in any Of its essential
terms is tantamount to a new bid, and can not be
received to interfere with regular coinpeS
ton. Making a new bid, with guarantee and cers
titieate is the only way to modify previous bid
90 Postnasters are to be careful not to certify 10
the suffciency of guarantors without knowing that
they are persons Of sufficient responsibility. They
must not sign the certificate until the sum OF the
bid is inserted, and the bid and guarantee are
signed by the bidder and ttwo) guarantors a dis
regard of this instruction by lostmasters is Hlo
lation OF their oath OF office, suhjeetins them te
imne date removal.
81. All bidders, guarantors and srreties are dis
tinctly notified that failure to enter into OF
perform the contracts for the service proposed fol-
in the accepted bids, their legal liabilities viii be
enforced against them.
q. Present contractors and persons known at
the Department, must, equally with Others, pro-
cure guarantOrs and certificates OF their sfciency
substantially il the forms above prescribed. The
certificate of sufficiency must be signed by post
MASTER by Judge OF o court OF record; no other
viii be admitted.
JOHN A. J. CRESWELL,
nol9 law ct Postmaster General