The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-02-04

Containing also conditions to be ilcor-
poruted IN the contracts to the eGtent the
Department may deem proper.
1. 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 1t, the special agents Of the Post Office
Department, also post office blanks, mail 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
the mails, specifying the number
and destination of the several bags, to be ex-
alntned by the postmasters, to insure regularity
in the delivery of bags, and pouches.
I. No pay Will be made for trips not per.
failure be occasioned 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-f0urth of
the compensation for the trip if subject to for
f%eiture. For repeated delinquencies Of the kind
herein specified, enlarged penalties proportional
to the nature thereof, and the importance of the
mail, may be made.
9. 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 dclinquen.
cy be promptly and satisfactorily explained by
certificates of postmasters or the afiidayits of
other credible per sons, for failing to arrive in
contract time; for neglecting to take the mail
from, or deliver 1T into, a post office for suffer-
ing 1t 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 steam.
boat on a route.
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
by the department to do so for running an ex-
press as afor. said or for transporting persons
OF packages conveying mnilable matter out of
the mail.
s. The Postmaster General may order an In
crease of service on a route by allowing there
for Il 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 place on the route superior
service. or whenever the public interests, in his
judgment, shall require such discontinuance or
curtaIment for any other cause; he allowing as
full indemnity 4, contractor one months extra
pay on the amount of service dispensed with,
and a pro rata compensation for the amount of
service retained and continued.
8. Payments will be made by collections from,
or drafts on, postmasters or Otherwise, after the
expiration of each quarter-say in November,
| FEBRUARY, MAY, ana August pTONlueu tndG re-
quired evidence of service has been received.
10. The distances given are believed TO be sub
stantially 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 thelaSetues 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, ferries, or
distractions of any kind by which expense may
be incurred. No claim tor additional pay, based
on such ground, can be considered nor for alieg'
ed mistakes or misrepresentation as TO the degr e
of service; nor for bridges destroyed ferries dis
continued, or other distractions causing OF In
creasing distance or expense occurring during
the contract term. Offices established after this
advertis ement is issued, and also during the con.
tract term, are TO be visited without extra pay, II
the distance be not increased.
IL. Bidders are cautioned to mail their propo-
sails in time to reach the Department by the day
and hour named 10 p m, March 8, 1879, for bids
received after time aoiIt net be considered in COM
petition with bids, of reasonable amount, re
ceived In time. Neither can bids be considered
which are without the guarantee required by
law, and a certificate of the sufficiepcy OF such
guarantee and the oath of the bidder according
to section 246, act of June s, 1879.
~. hidders should first propose for service
strictly according to the advertisement, and
then, If they desire, separately for different serv
ice; and If the regular bid be the lowest offered
for the advertised service, the other proposition
may be considered.
l3. There should be but one route bid for In q
PROPOSAL. Consolidated or combination bids
('proposing one sum for two or more routes"l
cannot be considered.
IA. The route, the service, the yearly pay, the
| name and residence of the bidder THAT Is ht