Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-02-12
dia,e office. vhen not othersl.e specified for

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dia;e office. ~hen not othersi.e specified. for
opening ard .'Ig..Hing the mails
| No pap -I.l b" made for ,r',s r,-i performed
| and iJr each Of ~ a oini.sior. not slti.fac-
/ tori, explained. three times tile pay of the
! trip may l.. deducted. Tor arrirals 50 f,r be-
: bind time n To Irt,h c1rncrtiou " i;h :cteu.l
/ ing nail. aui Lot sufficiently excused. one.
fourth of the compensation !uf the trip il sub.
! ject to forfetG:c.
riue. will he imposed. urUss the de'in.
que"cy lee promptly aud satisfactorily cx-
/ planned by certificates Of lostmasters or the
aI.davt- u oihcr credible persons for falling
10 arrive in contract time: for ucglec,:ng to
take the mail from, or deliver it into. post
| Office for suffering j; TO lie wet, Injured de-
stroycJ. robbed or lost.
The Postmaster General mag snnul III.
| contract for repeated failures to run agrceably
| 10 contract for violating the post Office laws.
| or disohcying the instructions Of the depart
mcnt for refusing TO discharge carrier when
| requested by the department to do So for as
| signing the contract without the assent of the
Postmaster General or for transporting per
sons or packages conveying mai!ab!e matter
out of the mail
The Postmaster General may order an in
crease of service on route by allowing taere-
for a pro rata increase on the contract paw
lie may change schedules of departures aud
arrivals in all cases, and particularly to make
them conform to connections with railroads.
without increase of pay, provided the running
time be not abridged. The Postmaster Gem
eral may also discontinue curtail the service,
in whole or in part in order to place on the
route greater degree of service, or whenever
| the public interests, in his judgment, shall re-
qnre such discontinuance or curtailnent for
any other cause he allowing al full indemnity
| to contractor one months extra paw on the
| amount OF service dispensed WITH and a pro
| rata compensation for tie amour. of service
retained and continued.
Payments will be made fer the service by
collections from or drafts on pos,nmsters, or
otherwise, after the expiration of each quarter
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 advcr-
tised, If the points to be supplied be correctly
stated. Bidders must Hfgrm themselves on tbs
point.
Bidders are requested to use, as far as riac-
ticablc, the printed form Of proposal furnished
by the department, to write out in full the sum
of their bids, and to return copies Of them.
Each bid must be guaranteed by two respon-
sible persons.
| Mail Proposals, Territory of Washington ."
| addressed "Second Assistant Postmaster Cen
| eral, Contract Oihce,' and sent by mall not
| 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 LIST
| OF July, 1870; but the service must be begun
on that day, or on the next mail day thereaf-
| ter, whether the contracts be executed or not.
| Transfers of contracts, or 0! Interests in con-
tracts, are forbidden by law, and Consequent
| ly cannot be allowed. Bidders will therefore
take notice that they will be required to per-
| form the service accepted TO them through the
whole term Of the contract.
Section eighteen Of an act of Congress ap-
proved March 8, 1915, provides that contracts
for the transportation Of the nail shall be let !,
" in every case, to,the lowest bidder rendering
sufficient guarantees Tor faithful performance,
without other reference TO the mode of su III
transportation than may be Necessary to pro-
vide for the due celebrity, certainty. and secu-
rity of such transportation" Under this law
bids that propose to transport the mail with
" CELEBRITY, certainty and security, having been
decided to be the only legal bids, are construed
RS providing for the entire mail, however large,
and whatever may be the mode of conveyance
necessary to insure its Z" celebrity, certainty
and security and no others will be consd-
cred. Exccptin the lease OF railroad and steam
| po"' io"tcS, otc" mummy GHV pHtcHIW MoGc q
conveyance are iRrautbly rcjcct,d
A modification of a bid in any of its essen.
tial terms is tantamount TO Il new bid and
cannot be received, SO rs to interfere with a
regular competition, after the last hour set for
receiving bids Making 4 new bid, with guar
antee and certificate, is the only way to modify
d previous bid.
Postmasters are to be careful not to certify
to the suflciency Of guarantors CIR surc,ics
without knowing that they are persons of sut-
iicient responsibility disregard Of This IN
strnrion By postmasfers is rotation OF tier oaA
Of ohrr. sn!jecfing them 10 immediate rcmoral
All bidders guarantors, and surcties are dis
tnctly notified that on failure to enter into
or perform the contracts for the service pro.
posed for in the accepted bids, their legal LA
bilties will be enforced against them
Present contractors, and persons known at
: the department. must. equally with others
procure Guarantors and certificates, Of tlieii
) snthciency, substantially in the forms above
, prescribed. The certificate Of sul!iciencv mus
, be signed by postmaster, or by udgc Of !
court OF record no other will be adm tilted.
JNO. a. J. CRES WELL,
: IoSfmGstf' Gcncral.