The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-31

p0rdted IN the contracts TO the ertent the
Department may deem proper.
| /. 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 Office
Department, also post office blanks. all bags.
locks and keys, are to be conveyed without extra
| charge.
| 8. "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 eY-
| ainined by the postmasters, to insure regularity
| in the delivery OF bags ard pouches.
4. No pay will DO made for trips not per
| formed; and for each of such omissions, II the
failure be occasoned by the fault of the contrac-
tor or carrier, three times the pay Of the trip
will be deducted For arrivals so far behind
time as to break connection with depending
mails, and not sufficiently excused one-fourth Of
the compensation for the trip If subject to for
| FIXTURES For repeated deinquencies of the kind
herein specified, enlarged penalties, proportional
to the nature the ,eof, and the importance 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, a quarters pay may be
deducted,
| 6. Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquen.
| cy be promptly and satisfactorily explained by
certificates OF postmasters or the affidavits Of
| other credible pei sons for falling to arrive in
contract time; for neglecting to take the mail
from, deliver it into, post office for suffer-
ing it to be wet, injured, destroyed, robbed, or
| lost; and for refusing, after demand, to convey
the mail MS frequently as the contractor runs, or
is concerned in running, coach, car, or steam
| boat on Il route.
7. The Postmaster General may annul the
contract for repeated failures to run agreeably
to contract for violating the post office laws, or
| disobeying the instructions of the department;
| for refusing to discharge a carrier when required
| Dy the lleDartmeQJ to do for running eY-
press as afor, said; or for Transporting persons
OF packages conveying mailabe matter out OF
| the mail
| s. The Postmaster General may order an in.
| crease of service on route by allowing there.
| for q pro rata increase on the contract paw. 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 place on the route superior
service, or whenever the public interests, in his
judgment, shall require such discontinuance or
curtailment for any other cause be allowing IA
full indemnity T. contractor one months extra
pay on the amount Of service dispensed with,
and n pro rata compensation for the amount OF
service retained and continued.
0. Payments will be made by collections from
or drafts on. postmasters otherwise, after the
expiration of each quarter-say In November
February, May, and August provided that re-
| 10. The distances given are believed to be sub
stantially correct but no increased pay will bt
allowed should they be greater than advertised
If the points to be supplied are correctly stated
Bidders must inform themselves on this point, anc
also in reference to the weight OF the mail, the
condition of hills, roads, streams, &C., and al
toll bridges, turnpkes, plankroads, ferries, OF
| Instructions of any kind by which expense may
be incurred. No claim tor additional pay, based
on such ground, can be considered; nor for alleg
| ed mistakes or fnisapprehension as TO the degr
of service; for bridges destroyed, ferries dis
continued, or other distractions causing OF In
creasing distance or expense occurring durini
the contract term. Offices established after thi
ADVERT. ement is issued. and also during the con
; tract term, are TO be vistedwithout extra pay,
the distance be not increased.
H. Bidders are cautioned to mail their propo
sails in time to reach the Department by the da.
and hour named e p m, March 8, 1879. for bid
received after time spiH net be considered in com
petition with bids, of reasonable amount, re
ceiyed in time. Neither can bids be considered
!. which are without the guarantee required b,
law, and certificate of the sufticiency OF sucl
D guarantee, and the oath of the bidder according
/, to section 246 act of June 8, 1879.
IL. hidders should first propose for servtc
;, strictly according to the advertisement, an
then II they desire. separately for different ser,
ice and ii the regular bid be the lowest offare
= for the advertised service, the other proposition
may be considered.
49, There should be but one route bid for in
proposal. Consolidated or combination bid
: ('proposing one sum for two or more rontes'
d cannot be considered.
IA The route, the service. the yearly pay, II
name and residence Of the bidder THAT Is