Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-07-02
slFIRIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 2, 1870.
More Tampering with the Mails.

NlfiA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 2, 1870.
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More Tampering with the Mails.
It will be remembered that few months
ago Postal Agent Underwood changed the
schedule on the mail route between Mont.
cello and this place, giving the contract
Or . third more time than the schedule
had at any time the past tenyears allowed,
which change resulted in great inconveni-
euee and injury to our people. 1t appears
that this is not all the special service the
ebligiug Agent has rendered his friends,
the old contractors.
About the 9Th of June Mr.. Winsor re-
ceived official notification Of the acceptance
Of his bid on Route 5,4O5, and dupli-
cate contracts to be signed by him and re.
turned to the Department The noti6ca-
ton read IS follows:
U. s. Posr OFFICE DEPARTMENT, !
(CoSrRAcr OrrIcE,)
WASHINGTON, March IA, 1870.
Sr: The Postmaster General has accepted
your proposal, under advertisement. of Septem-
Der 30, 1859, for conveying the United States
Nail, from July l, 1870, to June 80, 1874, on
Washington Route No. l5lO5, between Olympia
and Monticello, at $1,000 q year, six times
week, with Celebrity, Certainty. and Secur-
IT," Contracts, to be executed by yourself
and sureties, will be sent Undue time but the
service must be begun on the LIST of July. or
the next mail thereafter, whether the contracts
be executed or not.
Iou will request the Postmaster at the be-
ginning and end of the route to inform this
Once when you make the first trip.
Respectfully, &C., &c.
GILES A. SMITH,
Second Assistant Postmaster General.
Mr.. Henry winsor, Olympia, W.T..
It will be seen from the foregoing, LIST,
that Mr.. Winsor's bid was accepted; I'd,
that the contract" would be sent at some
time subsequent to March l4th. and Sd,
that the service should begin on the LIST of
July, whether the contracts be executed
or not" It appears from the letter of the
Contract Office to the Postmaster in this
place that the contracts were not actually
mailed from Department until the 9th of
May, and they were not received here till
about the 9th of June. This letter begins
- follows: By sanction of the Postmas-
ter-General, the enclosed contracts for
carrying the mail are intrusted to you to
be signed BY the contractors therein
named" aud then prescribes the rules
which shall govern the Postmaster in
filing out and signing the forms, and re-
quests their speedy return to the Depart.
nent. This was done without unnecessa.
y delay, snd the documents we're mailed
about the 10th of June. A few days later
The following circular was received by the
Postmaster from the Department:
Posr ORrIcE DEPARTMENT,
WAeBrxerox, May ls7o.s)
Sn: The first section Of . Joint Resolution
q the Senate and House of Representatives
dent Nay s, 1870, provides
That the Postmaster Genera! be. and he
u hereby, authorized, in any case in which
ae nay deem 1t necessary. to require accepted
bidders under the advertisement of September
shirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nne, in
viting proposals for carrying the mails of the
United States in the States and Territories
aforementioned, to execute contracts and re-.
tara them to the department at an earlier
pefi6d than the first day Of July, and. at the
Atserstion ofthe Postmaster General, az earIv
= the 6rstday of June, eighteen hundred and
seventy"
"The States and Territories" alluded to
ass. California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and Ari..
pursuance of the authority vested in me
~ this Joint Resolution of Congress, hereby
require you to execute, with two sufficient
safettee, the contracts for mail route No.
u ths Usats o., accepted to you, March
u, last, usdsr the advertisement Of September
20, 1869.
The contracts are In the hands Of the most
naster - your place Of residence, and thew
ase - - sxecutsd under his direction and in
aeeee41nee with instructions from the depart-
neat, - afs 70 BE- returned Is soon AZ prac-
oeshsss but not later than the 10th of June
next.
And you are hereby notified that. In case Of
your failure 70 execute and return the said
contracts on or before the day last.named,
your bid will be disregarded. and the depart.
men FL z: psaC Dsoece1 - male such other