Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-01-18

may UeeHI proper.
l. Seven minutes are allowed to each inter
| mediate office, when not otherwise specified, for
asserting the mails
2. On routes where the mode OF conveyance
admits of it, the special agents of the Post Of
hce Department, also post office blanks, mail
bags, locks and keys, are to be conveyed with
out extra charge
3. Way Bills or receipts prepared by post
masters or other agents of the Department, will
| accompany the mails, specifying the number
and destination of the several bags, to be exam
med by the postmasters, to insure regularity in
| the delivery of bags and pouches.
4. No pay will be made for trips not perform
eC and for each of such omissions, if the fail
ure be occasioned blythe fault of the contractor
or carrier, three times the pay of the trip will
be deducted For arrivals so far behind time as
to break connections with depending mails, and
not sufficiently excused, one fourth of the COM
pensation for the trip is subject to forfeiture.
For repeated delinquencies of the kind herein
| specified, enlarged penalties, proportional to
| the nature thereof, and the importance of the
mail, may be made.
| o. For leaving behind or throwing off the
mails, or any portion of them, for the admission
of passengers, or for being concerned in setting
| upor running an express conveying intelligence
in advance of the mail, quarters pay may be
| deducted.
6. Fines will be imposed, u;riess the delin-
| quency be promptly and satisfactorily explained
by certificates of pOStmastsrS or the atfdavits of
other dlble persons, for failing to arrive in
contract time; for neglecting to take the mail
from, or deliver into, post office: for suffering
it to be wet, injured, destroyed, robbed or lost
and for refusing, after demand, TO convey the
mail as often as the contractor runs, or is con-
| cerned IN running, coach, car, or steamboat on
| a route
| I. The Postmaster General may annul the
contract FOR repeated failures to run agreeably
to contract for violating the post office laws or
dlsobeylng the Instructions of the Department;
for refusing to discharge carrier when required
by the Department to do so; for running an ex-
| press as aforesaid; or for transporting persons
or packages conveying mailable matter out of
| the mail.
| 8. The Postmaster General may order an in
crease of service on a route by allowing therefor
| pro rata increase on the contract pay He
| may change schedules of departures and arri-
walls 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 General may
also discontinue or curtail the service, in whole
or In part, in order to placs on the route supe-
rior service. or whenever the public interests, in
| his Judgment shall require such discontinuance
| or curtalment for any other cause he allowing
as full indemnity to contractor one months ex-
ira pay on the amount of service dispensed WITH
and pro rate compensation for the amount of
| service retained and continued
| g. Payments will be made by collections FROM
or drafts on, postmasters or otherwise, after the
expiration Of each quarter-say in November.
February, May, and August, provided that re-
quired service has been received,
| 10. The distances given are believed to be
| substantially correct but no increased pay will
be allowed should they be greater than adver-
| tised, if the points to be supplied are correctly
stated. Bidders mast inform themselves on this
point, and also in reference to the weight of the
mail, the condition of hills, roads, streams, &c,
and all toll-bridges turnpikes, plank-roads, fer
ries, or distractions of any kind by which ex-
| pense may be incurred. No claim for additional
| pay, based on such ground, can be considered ;
| nor for alleged mistakes or misapprehenson as
| to the degree of service; nor for bridges de-
| stroyed, ferries discontinued, or other obstsuc-
lions causing or increasing distance OF expense
occurring during the contract torn. Offices es-
tabllshed after this advertisement is issued, and
also during the contract term, to be visited
without extra pay, if the distance be not in
| creased,
IL. Bidders are cautioned to mail their pro-
posals IN time to reach the Department by the
day and hour named g D. m, March 8 iSi2l
tor bids received after that time Will not be con-
sidered in competition With bids, of reasonable
| amount, received in time, Neither can bids be
considered which are without the guarantee re-.
CURED by law, and certificate of the suficiency
OF such guarantee and the oath of the bidder
according to 246, act of June 3, 1872.
Y Bidders should first propose for service
strictly according to the advertisement, and
then, If they desire, separately for different ser.
vice. ana II the regular bid be the lowest offered
Tor the advertised service, the ether propositions
may be considered.
h. There should be but one route bid for in a
prOposal Consolidated or combination bids
| cpropOsing one sum for two or more routes J
cannot beconsidered
Il The route, the service, the yearly pay, the
name and residence of the bidder THAT is, lis
usual post office address,, and the name Of each
member of a firm, where company offers,
should be distinctly stated.
10 Bidders gre requested to USE as far as prac-
ticahle. tho printed proposals furnished by the
Department. to write out in full the sum of their
bids, and to retain copies of them.
Altered bids should not be submitted nor
should bids once submitted be withdrawn No
Withdrawal of bidder or guarantor will he nj.
lowed unless the withdrawal is received twentv-
four hours previous to the time fixed for opening
the proposals.
Each bid must be guaranteed By swo respon-
SlDle persons. The bid and guarantee should
De signed plenty with the fun name of each
Inc fosimaster General reserves the right to
reject any bid which NAV bn doopaa6 $1,000