Arizona citizen., 1873-01-25

far behind time as to break connection with depending mails, and not sufficiently ex- cused, one-fourth of the compensation TOT the trip is subject to forfeiture. For re- peated delinquencies of the kind herein specified, enlarged penalties, proportloned to the nature thereof, and the importance of the mail. may be made. ] ,. For leaving behind or throwing oh the mails, or any portion of them, for ths admission of messengers, or for being con- cerned in setting up or running an express conveying intelligence in advance of. the mail, quarters pay may be deducted. $. Fines will be lmpo sed, unless the de- Enqueney be promptly and satisfactorily explained by certificates of postmasters or .he afidayits of other credible persons, for failing to arrive ill contract time; for reg lecting to take the mail from, or deliver it inIo, post office; for suffering it to be wet, injured, destroyed, robbed, or lost ; and for refusing, after demand, to convey the mail as frequently as the contractor runs, or is concerned in running, coach, car, or steamboat on a route.
 2. The Postmaster General may annul the contract for repeated failures to run agreeably to contract; for violating the post office laws, or disobeying the instruc- tions 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 per- sons or packages conveying mallable mat ter out of the mail.
 8. The Postmaster General may order an increase of service on route by allowing therefor a pro rata increase on the contract pay. He may change schedules of depart ures and arrivals in all cases, and particu- larly to make them conform 10 connections with railroads, without increase of pay, pro- vided 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 superior service, or whenever the public interests, in his judgment, shall require such discon- tinuance or curtailment for any other cause; 1; he allowing as full indemnity to contractor one months extra pay on the amount of service dispensed with, and pro rata com- pensation tor the amount of service retained and continued. -...e
 g. Payments will be made by collections from, or drafts on, postmasters or other wise, after the expiration of each quarter- say in November, February, May and Au- gust, provided that required evidence Cf 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 advertised, if the points to be supplied are correctly stated. Bidders must inform themselves on this point, and also Tn refer ence to the weight of the mail, the cOndi- ton of hills, roads, streams, &c., and all toIl-bridges, turnpikes, plank-roads, ferries, or Instructions of any kind by which ex- pense may be incurred. No claim for ad ditionaI pay, based on such ground, can be considered; nor for alleged mistakes or mis- apprehension as to the degree of service; nor for bridges destroyed, ferries diseontin- ued, or Otter Instructions causing or ln' Creasing distance or expense occurring dur ing the contract term. Offices established after this advertisement is-issued, and also during the contract term, are to be visited without extra pay, if the distance be not increased.
 II. Bidders are cautioned to nail their proposals in time to reach the Department by the day and hour named (3 p. m., March 5, lS73), for bids received after that time will 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 and the oath of the bid- der according to section 246, act of June s, 1872.
 l2. Bidders should first propose for serv- ice strictly according to the adv ertisement, 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 considered.
 l3. There should be but one route bid for in proposal. Consolidated or combi- nation bids (''proposing one sum for two or more rOutes') cannot be considered.
 II. The route, the service, the yearly pay, the name and residence of the Diddcr (that is. his usual post office address), a:.d the name ot each member of a firm, where company offers, should be distinctly stated.
 l5. Bidders are requested to use, as far as practicable, the printed proposals furn- ished 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 with drawn. No withdrawal of bidder or gual antor will be allowed unless the with drawal is received twenty y-four hours pre- yious to the time fixed for opening the pro-