The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-10-28

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the afldavits Of other credible persons, 70
falling to arrive in contract time: fo
neglccting to take the mail from, or deliye
it into, post office; for suffering it to b.
wet injured, destroyed, robbed, or lost
and for refusing, after demand, to conve,
the mail as frequently as the contractor
runs, OF IS concerned in running, a coach
! car, or steamboat on route.
z. The Postmaster General NAV ANN
the contract for repeated failures to run
agreeably to contract; for violating the
post Office laws, or disobeying the instruc-
IONS OF the Department.; for refusing to
discharge carrier when required by the
department to do so; for running an express
as aforesaid; or for transporting persons or
packages conveying mailable matter out of
the mail.
s. The Postmaster General NAV order an
increase of service on a route nv allowing
therefor pro rata increase on tile contract
pay. he may change schedules of depar-
lures and arrivals in all cases, and particu-
larly to make them conform to connections
with railroads, without increase of nav.
provided the running time be not ABRIDGED.
The Postmaster General may also discon-
tinue or curtail the service, in whole or in
part, in order to place on the route sumo
rlor service. or whenever the public inter
ests, Ill his Judgment, shall require such
dlscontinuance or curtailment for anv other
cause; he allowing as full indemnity to
contractor one months extra paw on the
amount OF service dispensed with, and a
pro rdtd compensation for the amount of
service retained and continued.
y. Payments will be made by collections
from, or drafts on, postmasters or other
wise, alter the expiration of each quarter
say IN November, February, May, and
August, provided that required evidence of
service has been received.
lo. The distances given are believed to
be substantially correct; but no increased
pay will be allowed should they be greater
than advertised, if the points to be sup
piled are correctly stated. Bidders must
inform themselves on Mis point, and also in
reference to the weight of the mail, the
condition of roads, hills, streams. &c. and
all toll-bridges, turnpikes, plank roads. fer
RES, or distractions of any kind by which
expense may be incurred. No claim for
additional pay, based on such ground: can
be considered; nor for alleged mistakes or
as to the degree of SER
vice; nor for bridges destroyed, ferries dis
continued, or other Instructions causing or
increasing distance OR expense occurring
during the contract term. Offices estab-
lished after this advertisement is issued.
and also during the contract term, are to
be visited without extra pay, if the dis
lance be not increased.
II. bidders are cautioned to mail their
proposals in time to reach the Department
by the day and hour named, q D. m.
March l, 1872, for bids received after that
time aosn not be considered in competition
with bids, of reasonable amount, received
in time. Neither can bids be considered
which are without the guarantee required
by law, and certificate of the sufficiency
Of such guarantee.
II. bidders should first propose for ser
wee strictly according to the advertisement,
ana then, II they desire, separately for diff
lerent service; and If the regular bid be
inc lowest offered for the advertised service,
Inc other propositions may be considered.
10. There should be but one route bid
-or in proposal. Consolidated Or combi
nation bids proposing one sum for two
IL more routes") are forbidden by law.
md cannot be considered.
IA. Tho route, the service, the yearly
pay, the name and residence of the bidder,
that is. his usual post-office address.) and
he name of each member of a firm, where
company offers, should be distinctly
stated.
10. Bidders are requested to use, as far
Is practicable, the printed proposals fur
lished by the Department, to write out in
ull the sum Of their bids, and to retain
copies of them.
Altered bids should not be submitted;
Tor should bids once submitted be with
lrawn. No withdrawal of bidder or
.uarantor will be allowed unless the with
travail is dated and received before the last
lay for receiving proposals.
Each hid must be guaranteed by two
esponsible persons. The bid and guar
,nteo should be signed plainly with the
ull name of each person.
The Postmaster General reserves the
light to reject any bid which may be deemed
and also to disregard the bids
If falling contractors and bidders. (Act
If July 2, 1886, section a.
16. The bid should be sealed, SUPER
cribed EMAIL Proposals, State of Mary
and, addressed "Second Assistant Post
master General, Contract Office" and sent
~ ma'l not by or to an agent. Bids of
30, ZOO per annnm and upward must be
accompanied by certified check or draft,
'qual to per cent. of the amount.
H. The contracts are to be executed and
eturned to the Department by or before
he LIST dag Of july, 1872; but the service
must be begun on that day, or on the mail
lay next after it, whether the contracts be
or not.
Transfers of contracts, or of intereat in
are forbidden by law, and con-
cannot be allowed. Neither can
lids, Or interests in bids, be transferred or
ssigned to other parties. Bidders will
therefore, take notice that they will be
to perform the service accepted to
hem through the whole contract term.
IL. Section eighteen of an act of Con-
,ress approved March 3, 1915, provides
hat contracts for the transportation of the
nail shall be let, "in every case, to the
owest bidder rendering sufficient guaran-
ees for faithful performance, without other
eference to the mode of such transporta-
ion than may be necessary to provide for
he due celebrity, certainty, and security of
UGH transportation" Under this law bids
hat propose to transport the mails with
celebrity, certainty, and security" having
cen decided to be the only legal bids, are con-
trued as proriding for the entire mail, Aoas-
0er large, and achateger mag be tile mode of
onoeydnca necessary to insure its "celeritg,
ertail'ty and security" and hare tile prefer
7tce ooer all others. and no others are con-
idered, except for steamboat routes.
-. modification of q bid in any of it's
ssential terms is tantamount to new bid,
nd cannot be received, so as to interfere
With regular competition. Making a new
i'd, with guarantee and certificate, is the
My way to modify a previous bid.
~. Postmasters are to be careful not to
Gritty to the sutficiency of guarantors
Without knowing that they are persons of
efficient responsibility. They must not
ign the certificate until the sum of the bid
5 inserted, and the bid and guarantee are
igned by the bidder and two guarantors;
disregard Of this instruction By postmas-
'rs as a rio'ation Of their oath Of office, sub
scting them to immediate removal Post
casters are forbidden By lau, under penalty
dismissal, to act as agents of contractors,
= bidders, IN any matter or thing relating to
he business Of tile Department.
81. All bidders, guarantors and sureties
re distinctly notified that on failure to
inter- into or perform the contracts for the
ervice proposed for in the accepted bids,
heir legal liabilities Will be enforced against
hem.
s2. Present contractors, and persons
nowE at the Department, must, equally
nth Others procure guarantors and certi-
Gates OF their suflicency substantially in
he forms above prescribed. The certificate
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