The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-12-28

Steamboat companies are required to take the
mail from, and deliver it into the post Offices at
the beginning and end of their routes; and also
to and from all intermediate offices not more
than eighty rods from landing. PROPOSALS may
nance of all other side service...that is, for
offices over eighty rods from landing
4. No pay will be made for trips not perform
ed; and for each of such omissions, not salts
factorily explained, three times the pay OF the
trip will be deducted. For arrivals SO tar be-
hind time as to break connection with de-
pending mails, and not sufficiently excused,
one. fourth Of the compensation for the trip is
subject to forfeiture. For repeated delinquent
ces of the kind herein specified, enlarged pc.
nalties, proportional to the nature thereof, and
the Importance of the mail, may be made
8. For leaving behind or throwing on the
mails, or any portion of them, for the admission
OF passengers, or for being concerned In setting
up or running an express conveyance lnteiil-
gence in advance of the mail, quarters pay
may be deducted
6. Fines will be imposed, unless the delin-
quency be promptly and satisfactorily explained
by certificates of postmasters or the afhdaylts OF
other credible persons, for falling to arrive in
contract time; for neglecting to take the mall
from, or deliver 1t into, post office TOR suffer-
ing 1t to be wet, injured, destroyed, robbed, or
lost; and for refusing, after demand, to convey
is concerned in running, coacn, car, or steam
boat on a route.
1.-THE Postmaster General may annul the con-
tract for repeated failures TO run agreeably to
contract; for violating the post office laws or
dlsooeying the instructions OF the department
for refusing to discharge the carrier when re-
quired by the Department to do SO; for running
an express as Aforesaid; or for transporting
persons or packages conveying mailable matter
ont of the mail.
8. The Postmaster General may order an in
crease OF service on route by allowing therefor
a pro ratio increase on the contract pay. He may
change schedules oil departures and arrivals in
all cases, and particularly to make them con-
form to connections with railroads, without in
crease OF pay, provided the running time be not
abridged. The Postmaster General may also
discontinue or curtail the service, in whole or In
vice, wherever the public interests In his judg-
ment shall require such dscOntinuance or car
tailment for any other cause he allowing as full
indemnity to contractor one months extra pay
on the amount of service dispensed with, and a
pro ratio compensation for the amount oil service
retained and continued. li4 9i- o.
.. Payments will be made by collections from,
or drafts on, postmasrers, or otherwise, alter the
expiration OF each quarter-say in November,
February, May, and August.
10. The distances are given acccrdingato the
best information; but no increased pay will be
II the points to be 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, SC, and all
toll-bridges. turnpikes, plank roads, ferries OF
distractions of any kind By which expense
based on such ground, can be considered; MOI
for alleged mistakes or misapprehension as to
the degree of service; nor for bridges Destroy
ed, ferries discontinued, or other distractions
causing or increasing distance or expense, oc-
curing during the contract term. Offices estab-
lIshed after this advertisement is issued, and also
during the contract term, are to be visited with
out extra pay, il the distance be not increased.
IL. Bidders are cautioned to mail their propo-
sails in time to reach the Department by the day
and hour named, q p. m, March l, 1877, fol
bids received after that time DiH not be consider
ed in competition with bids OF reasonable
amount received in time. Neither can bids b.
considered which are without the guarantee re-
quired by law, and certificate of the sufficien-
cy OF such guarantee.
IL. Bidders should first propose for service
strictly according to the advertisement, and
vice; and If the regular bid be the lowest offer
ed for the advertised service, the other PROPOSE
tions may be considered.
Is. There should be but one route bid tor in
proposal. Consolidated or combination bid:
proposing one sum for two or more routes !"
are forbidden by law, and cannot be considered
a. The route, the service, the yearly pay, the
name and residence of the bidder, Chat Is, his
usual post office address,) and the name of eacf
member OF firm, where company offers
should be distinctly stated.
15 Bidders are requested to use. as far q:
practicable, the printed proposals furnished BY
the Department, to write out in full the sum
their bids, and to retain copies of them.
Altered bids should not be submitted; mo-
should bids once submitted be withdrawn. NJ
withdrawal of bidder or guarantor will be al
lowed unless the withdrawal is dated and re-
ceived before the last day for receiving propo
SAILS
Each bid must be guaranteed by two respon-
slble persons The bid see guarantee should b,
signed plainly with the full name OF each person
The Department reserves the right to rejec
any bid which may be deemed extravagant; ant
also to disregard the bids of falling contractor
and bidders. (Act of July O. 1886, section a.
16. The bid should be sealed, superscribet
"Mail Proposals, State of North Carolina" ad
dressed "Second Assistant Postmaster General
Contract Office" and sent by mail, not by or t,
an agent
H. The contracts are 10 be executed and re
turned to the Department by or before the Is
day Of July, 1871; but the service must be BE-
gan on that day, or on the mail day next afte
it, whether the contracts be executed or not.
Transfers OF contracts, or OF interest in con
tracts. are forbidden by law, and consequently
cannot De allowed. bluuerS Will therefore TAX
notice that they will be expected to perform tn
service accepted to them through the who'll
term of the contract.
| IS. Section eighteen of an act of Congress
| approved March 8, 1916, provides that contract
| for the transportation OF the mail shall be let
Gin every case, to the lowest bidder rendering
| sufficient guarantees for faithful performance
| without other reference to the mode of suc
transportation than may be necessary to pro
vide for the due celebrity, certainty, and securit
OF such transportation" Under this law bids tina
| propose TO transport the mails with "celerit,
certainty, and security" having been decided to
the only legal bids, are construed as providin
for the entire mail, however large, and whateve
may be the mode of conveyance necessary to insu,
its celebrity, certainty, and security" and Aas
| the preference ouer all others, and no others ar
considered, except for railroad and steamboa
| routes.
10. A modification of a bid in any of its CT
sential terms is tantamount to new bid, an
cannot be received, SO as to interfere with reg
ular competition. Making a new bid, wit
guarantee and certificate, is the only way t
modify previous bid.
20. Fostmasters are to be careful not to certi
fy to the sufficiency of guarantors withou
knowing that they are persons of sufficient re
sponsibiity. They must not sign the certificat
until the sum of the bid is inserted, and the bi
and guaranty are signed by the bidder and (twc
guarantors; disregard Of this instruction b
poStmasters is violdtio, Of their oath of odic
subjecting then, to immediate renaoral All bidder
guarantors, and sureties are distinctly notife
that on failure to enter into or perform th
contracts for the service proposed for in the az
cepted bids, their legal liabilities will be enior
ed against them.
81. Present contractors, and persons know
at the Department, must, equally with others
procure guarantors and certificates of their suff
cheney substantially in the form above present.
ed. The certificate of sufficiency must be signe
by postmaster, or BY a judge of court OF r.
cord; no other will be admitted.
JNO A. j. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General
now 263-1aw6w