Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-11-23
INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS AND
POSTMASTERS;

Containing also conditions to be incorporated
in the contracts to the extent the Department
may deem proper.
/. Seven minutes are allowed to each inter
mediate Office when not otherwise specified, fol-
asserting the mails.
2. On routes where the mode of conveyance
admits of it, the special agents of the Postoffce
Department, also postoffice blanks mail bags
locks and keys, are to be conveyed without ex.
ira charge.
3. WAY bills" or receipts, prepared by
postmasters or other agents of the Department
will accompany the mails, specifying the mum.
Der and destination of the several bags, to be ex.
amined by the postmasters, to insure regularity
in the delivery of bags and pouches.
4. No pay will be made for trips not per-
formed, and for each of such omissions, if the
failure be occasioned by the fault of the COZ.
tractor or carrier three times the pay of the
trip will be deducted. For arrivals SO far be.
hind time as to break connection with depend.
ing mails, and not sufficiently excused, one.
fourth of the compensation for the trip is sub
ject to forfeiture. For repeated delinquencies
of the kind herein specified, enlarged penalties
proportional to the nature thereof, and the i'm.
portance of the mail, may be made
8. For leaving behind or throwing off the
mails, or any portion Of them, for the admission
of passengers, or for being concerned in setting
up or running an express conveying intelligence
in advance of the mail, quarters pay will be
deducted.
G. Fines will be imposed unless the delin.
quency be promptly and satisfactorily exI lained
by certificates of postmasters the affidsvits of
other credible persons, for failing to arrive in
contract time; for neglecting to take the mail
from. or deliver it into, postoffce; for suffer.
ing 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, a coach, car, or
steamboat on route.
I. The Postmaster General may annul a con.
tract for repeated failures to run sgreeably to
contract: for violating the postofiice laws, or
disobeying the instructions of the Department:
for refusing to discharge a carrier when required
by the Department to do SO; for running an ex-
press as aforesaid; or for transporting persons
or packages conveying nathalie matter out Of
the mail.
8. The Postmaster General may discontinue
or extend contract. change the schedule and
termini of route, and alter, increase, decrease
or extend the service. in accordance with law
he allowing pro rata increase of compensation
for any additional service thereby required or
for increased speed, II the employment Of add.
tional stock or carriers is rendered necessary
and in case of decrease, curtailment, or discon-
tinuance of service, as full indemnity to said
contractor, one months extra pay on the amount
Of service dispensed with, and pro rate CON-
pensstion for the service retained. Provided,
however, that, in case Of increased expedition,
the contractor. may, upon timely notice, relin-
quish the contract.
9. Payments will be made by collections from,
or drafts on, postmasters or otherwise. after the
expiration Of each quar..r-say in November,