The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1873-11-08


vice strictly according to the advertisss
mont, and then if they desire, separately,
! for different service; and if the regular bid
be the lowest offered for the advertised
service, the other propositions may be con-
| sidefed..
Is; There should BE but one route bid
for in proposal. Consolidated or COM
bination bids proposing one snm for two
or more routes") cannot Re considered.
Ia. The route, the service, the yearly
pay, the name and residence of. the bidder
(that is, his usual post office address and
the name of each member of firm, where
company offers, should be distinctly
stated
10. bidders are requested to use, as far
as practicable, the printed proposals fur
nished by the Department, to write ont
Ia full the sum of their bids, and 10 return
copies of them. :;
Altered bids should not be subnitted'.
nor shomld bids once submitted be with
drawn. No withdrawal of bidder or
guarantor will be allowed unless the with
drawaT is received tWenty-four hours pre-
vious to the time fixed for opeuing the pro-
pOsals.
Each bid must be guaranteed By fHo;
responsible persons. Tne bid and guaran.
tee should be signed plainly with full name
of each person.
The Postmaster General reserves the
right to reject any bid which NAV be-
deemed extravaganza; and also to disregard
the bids of failing contractors and b;dders
(Act of June 8, 1872, section 249.l
l6. The bid should be sealed. sunnar.
MaIl m
Arizona" addressed Second Assistant
Postmaster General. Contract Office.''
Bids of $4,000 per annuH and upward
must be accompanied by certified check:
or draft, on some solvent national bank
equal to five per cent. of the amount; also
bids for service which now costs $500
or more per annum- Where the present
pay is $4,000 or'mere, it lis Stated in the
advertisement under Che appropriate route:
IL. The contracts ara to be executed and
returned to the Department by or before
the LIST day of June 1874, otherwise the
accepted bidder will be considered as hay-
ing failed, and the Postmaster General NAV
proceed to contract for the service wifi
other parties according to law.
Transfers of contracts, or of interest
IN contracts are forbidden by law, and
consequently cannot be allowed. Neither
can bids, or interest in bids, be trans.
TERED or assigned to other parties.
Bidders will therefore take notice that thew
will be expected to perform the service
awarded to them through the whole con-
tract term.
IS. Section 249 of an act of June g.
1872, provides that contracts for the trans
DOrtation of mail shall be " awarded to the
lowest bidder rendering sufficient guarans
Tee 1or faithful performance, without other
reference to the mode of such Transports
Glon imam may be necessary to provide
ior 'he due CELEBRITY, certainty, and security
!nereo1 Under this law bids that pre-
pose TO transport the mails with "celerity,
certainty, and security" having been de-
clded to be the only legal bids, are con-
strued as providing for the entire mail,
however large, and whatever may be the
mode OF conveyance necessary to insure its
CELEBRITY, certainty, and security" and
have the preference over all others, and
no Others are considered, except for steam
boat routes.
~. A modification of bid in any of its
essential terms is tantamount to a new bid.
and cannot be received, so as TO interfere
with regular competition. Making a new
bid, with guarantee and certificate, ia the
only way to modify previous bid.
~. Postmasters are to be careful not 10
certify to the sufficiency or guarantors
without knowing that they are persons of
sufficient responsibility. (See section 247s
act of June 8, 1922 Taey must not sign
the certificate until the sum of the bid ia
inserted, and the bid and guarantee ara
signed by the bidder and (two) guarantors;
disregard of this instruction by the post
masters will subject them to immediate
removal and to servere penalties.
POstmasters are also liable to dismissal
from Office for acting as agents of contrac-
tors or bidders, with or without compen-
satlon, in any business, matter, or thingre-
lating to the mail service. They are the
trusted agents of the Department. and
cannot consistently act IN both capacities
~: All bidders, guarantors, and sureties'
are distinctly notified that on failure to
enter into or perform the contracts for the
Service proposed for in the accepted bids,
their legal liabilities will be enforced
against them.
~. Present contractors. and persons
known at the Department, must, equally
with others, procure gHarantors and certi-
fcates of their sufficieney substantially in
the forms above prescribed The certif-
cate of sufficiency must be signed by
postmaster,
%. In all cases where the routes are
not fully supplied with the necessary locks
and pouches, it is the duty of the postmas-
ter at the head of the route to make re-
QUESTION on the Contract Office Of this
Department for such locks and pouches
before Ist July next, provided the route
De let -
JNO A. j. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General.