Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-10-28
INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS AM
POSTMASTERS;

Containing also conditions to be incorporated
in the contracts to the extent the DEPARTMENT
may deem proper. ...
l. Seven minutes are allowed to each inter
asserting the mails.
2. On routes where the mode of conveyance
admits of it, the special agents of the Postofiice
Department, also postoffce blanks mail bags
locks and keys are to be conveyed without ex-
ira charge.
g.. Way bills" or receipts, prepared by
postmasters or other agents of the Department
will accompany the mails, specifying the num-
Der and destination OF the several bags, to be ex
amined by the postmasters, to insure regularity
in the delivery of bags and pouches.
l. 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 con-
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,
proportoned to the nature thereof, and the i'm
portance of the mail, may be made.
5. For leaving behind or throwing off the
mails, or any portion of them, for the admission
of passengers or for being concerned i'll setting
mp or running an express conveying intelligence
in advance of the mail, quarters pay will be
deducted.
6. Fines will be imposed, unless the delin-
quency be promptly and satisfactorily exI lained
by certificates of postmasters or the afidavits Of
other credible persons for failing to arrive in
contract time; for neglecting to take the mail
| FROM or deliver il into, postothce; 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, coach, car, or
| steamboat on a route.
| 7. The Postmaster General may annul a con-
| tract for repeated failures to run agreeably to
| contract for violating the postothce 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 eN-
| press aforesaid or for transporting persons
| or packages conveying mailable 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, if the employment OF addi-
| 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 ratV com
pensation for the service retained. Provided,
| however that, in case of increased expedition
the contractor may, upon timely notice, relin.
| quish the contract.
| 0. PAYMENTS will be ma le by collections from
or drafts on postmasters or otherwise, after the
! expiration of each quartGr-say in November
February, May and August provided that re-
| quired evidence OF service has been received.
| TO- The distances given are believed to be sub
stantially correct but no increased pay VIII bt
allowed should they be greater thah advertised
If the points to be supplied are correctly stated
Bidders must inform themselves on THIS poipt
and also in reference to the weight OF the mail
the conditions of hills, roads, streams &c, ant
all toll bridges, turnpikes, plank-roaus, ferries
or distinctions of any kind by whlch expense
may be incurred No claim for additional pay
based on such grouud can be considered, no.
for alleged mistakes or misapprehension as t.
the degree of service; nor for bridges destroyed
ferries discontinued, or other obstruetions caus
ing or increasing distance or expense occurring
during the contract term. Ofhces established
after this advertisement is issued, and also dur
| ing the contract term, are TO be visited withon
extra pay, If the distance be not increased.
Ii. Bidders are cautioned to mail their propo
sails in time to reach the Department by the da,
and hour named g p. m, February 2, 1870, q
bids received after that time Will not be consid
cred in competition with bids, Of REASONABLE
amount, received in time Neither can bids b
considered which are without the guarantee re
| quired by law, and a certificate OF the suthelenc
Of such guarantee and the oath of the bidder
according to section 2i6, act of June :. 1872.
IL. Bidders should first propose for servic
strictly according to the advertisement, an
then, if they desire, separately for dlnerent Sci
vice; and if the regular bid be the lowest oflere
for the advertised service, the other proposition
may be considered.
IS. There should be but one route bid for in
, | proposal Consolidated or combination bid
, i..proposng one sum for two or more routes
cannot be considered.
IA The route, the service, the yearly pay, tn
name and residence of the bidder THAT is, hi
Y usual post-ofice address,, and the name OF eac
' member of a firm, where company offers, shoul
Y be distinctly stated.
Is. Bidders are requested to use, as far as pra
9 ticable. the. printed proposals furnished by Il
0 Department, to write out in full the sum OF the
q bids. and to retain copies of them.
4 Altered bids should not be submitted: n,
8 | should bids once submitted be withdrawn. J