Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-11-11

by the fault of the contractor carrier three times
the pay of the trip will be deducted. For arrivals
far behind time to break connection with depending
mails and not sufficiently excused, onefourth of the
compensation for the trip is subject forfeiture For
repeated delinquences of the kind herein specified
enlarged penalties proortioned to the nature thereof
and the Importance of the mall may be made.
). For leaving behind throwing off the mails, or
any por ton of them for the admission Of passengers
for being concerned in setting running an ex-
press conveying intelligence in advance of the mall
quarters pay may be deducted.
g. Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquency be
promptly and satisfactorily explained by certificates of
postmasers the afdayts of other credible persons
for failing to arrive in contract time; for neglecting to
take the mail from, deliver it into. post office; for
sufringt to be wet injured destroyed robbed or lost
and for refusing after demand. to convey the mail as
frequently the contractor runs, is concerned in
running, coach, car or steamboat on route
z. The Postmaster General may annu the contract
for repeated failurs agreeably to conract for
violating the post Office laws dsobeying the nstruc
tons of the Department. for refusing to discharge
carrier when required by the Department to do So for
running express aforesaid; or for transporting
persons or packages conveying maabe matter out of
the mail. tt
s. The Postmaster General may order an increase of
service route by allowing therefor pro rata in
on the contract pay. Hemay change schedules
departures and 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 Gen raj may also dis
continue curta the service in whole or in part in
order to p ce on the route superior service or when
the public interests in his Judgment shall require
such discontnuance curainent for other cause
he allowing as full indemnity to contractor one months
extra pay the amount of service dispensed with and
pro rata compensation for the amount of service
! tanned and continued. tit
9. Payments will be made by collections from, or
drafts on postmasters otherwise after the expira
ton of each quarter-say in November February May,
August provided that required evidence of service
| has been received.
10. The distances given are believed to be substan
TALLY correct; but no increased pay will be allowed
should they be greater than advertised if the points to
| he
themselves this point and also in reference to the
weight of the mail the condition of hills roads, streams
&c. and all tobridges, turnpikes plank roads, ferries
or distractions ofany kind by which expense may be
incurred No claim for additional pay, based on such
ground be considered nor for alleged mistakes or
misrepresentation to the degree of service; nor for
bridges de troyed ferries discontinued other OBJ
| structons causing or increasing distance or expense
occurring during the contract term. Offices establish
ed after this advertisement issued and also during
the contract term are to be visited without extra pay
| if the distance be not increased.
H. Bidders are cautioned to mail their proposals in
| time to reach the Department by the day and hour
named, g February g. 1879 for bids received ar
that time will not be considered in competition with
bids, of reasonab amount received in time. Neither
can bids be considered which without the guara-
tee required by law an certificate of the sufcicncy
of such guarantee and the oath Of the bidder according
to Section 246, Act of June s, 1872.
IL. Bidders should first propose for service strictly
according to the advertisement and then. they desire
separately for different service and if the regular bid
be the lowest offered for the advertised service, the
other propositions may be considered.
l3, There should be but route bid for in propo
sal Consolidated or combination bids proposing one
sum for two more routes") cannot be considered.
H. The route the service, the yearly pay the name
and residence of the bidder that is his usual post of
fee address) and the name of each member of firm
| where company offers, should be distinctly stated
Is Bidders requested to as far as practica
ble the printed proposals furnished by the Department
to write out in full the sum ofther bids and to retaiI
| copies of them.
Altered bids should not be submitted: nor should
bids once submitted be withdrawn. No withdrawal o
bidder OF guarantOr will be allowed unless the with
drawal is received twentyfour hours previous to thu
time fixed for opening the proposals
Each bid must be guaranteed by two responsible
persons The bid and guarantee should be signet
plainly with the full name of each person
The Postmaster General reserves the right to rejec
any bid which may be deemed extravagant; and also Il
disregard the bids of failing contractors and bidders
] (Act of June s, 1872, section 249.)
l6. The bid should be sealed, superscribed maj
Proposals State of Vermont" addressed Second As
sstant Postmaster General Contract Office, and sen
by mail, not by to agent. Bids of 600 per
I mum and upward must be accompanied by certfe
check or draft some solvent National Bank, equa
to per cent. of the amount (See law Of Congress
| June s. 1872.
H. The contracts are to be executed and returned
the Department by before the LIST day of July 1873
but the service must be begun on that day. tn
mail day next after it, whether the contracts be execu
| ed or not.
Transfers of contracts or ofnterest in contracts
forbidden by law and consequently cannot be allowed
Neither can bids interests IN bids be transferred
assigned to other parties. Bidders will therefore tax
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accepted to them through the whole contract term.
IS. Section 249 Of the act of June s. 1872, provide
that contracts for the transportation OF the mail sba
he awarded to the lowest bidder rendering suiceI
guarantees for faithful performance without other
to the mode of such transportation than may
necessary provide for the due CELEBRITY certainty
security thereof" Under this law bids that propose
" transport the mails with celebrity certainty and
iy" having been decided to be the only legal bids,
construed as providing for the entire mail h0acep
necessary to its celebrity, certainty and
IT,, and hare the preference all others and no OF
ers considered except for steamboat routes.
~ 10. A modification of bid in any Of its essenti
terms is tantamOunt to new bid and cannot be I
y ceived. TO interfere with regular competito
Making bid. with guarantee and certificate.
: the only way to modify previous bid
90 Postmasters are to be careful not TO certify
the suficiency of guarantors without knowing tn
they persons of sufficient responsibility. See Sc
X ton 247 act of June s. lS72 They must not sign Il
certificate until the Of the bid is inserted and d
ny bid and guarantee signed by the bidder and w
guarantors; disregard Of this instruction by po
masters aoH subject them to immediate romord and
Il severe penalties.
Postmasters are also liable to dismissal from off
for acting agents OF contractors or bidders, with
K without compensation, in any business matter
thing, relating to the mail service They the tru
ed agents of the Department. and cannot consistent
act both capacities.
81. All bidders guarantors, and sureties distin
ly notified that failure to enter into perform
contracts service proposed for in the accept
70 bids their legal liabilities will be enforced against the
90. Present contractors and persons known at I
Department must equally with others, procure gu
anors and certificates of their sufciency substantial
IN the forms above prescribed. The certificate of suh
IA JNO. A. J. CRESWELL-
sr t.- Postmaster General