Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-11-19
INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS AND
POSTuASTERS:

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 for
asserting the mails.
2. On routes where the mode Of conveyance
admits of it, the special agents Of the Postoffice
Department also postofiice blanks. mail bags.
locks and keys are to be conveyed without ex.
ira charge.
8. 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
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, II 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.
proportioned to the nature thereof, and the i'm
portance of the mail, may be made
8. For leaving behind or throwing of 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
d. Fines will be imposed, unless the dein-
iucuCy Dc promptly anu SATISFACTORILY eNI lalneu
by certificates Of postmasters the affidavits of
other credible persons, for failing to arrive in
contract time; for neglecting to take the mail
from, or deliver it into, postofhce; 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, u coach, car or
steamboat on route.
I. The Postmaster General may annul con-
tract for repeated failures to run agreeably to
nvtfr Cos +,.Ia
disobeying the instructions 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 persons
or packages conveying mailable matter out of
the mail.
s. The Postmaster General may discontinue
or extend a 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 dscon.
tinuance of service, as full indemnity to said
contractor, one months extra pay on the amount
or service dispensed with, and pro rats CON-
pensation for the service retained Provided
however, that, in case Of increased expedition
the contractor may, upon timely notice, relin-
quish the contract.
o. Payments will be ma lie by collections from,
expiration Of each quarter-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 will be
allowed should they be greater than advertised,
II 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. and
all toll bridges turnpikes, plank-roads ferries.
or ObStrurtiDns hind W which
may be incurred. No claim for additional pay,
based on such ground, can be considered nor
for alleged mistakes or Misrepresentation as to
the degree Of service; nor for bridges destroyed,
ferries discontinued, or other distractions caus-
ing or increasing distance or expense occurring
during the contract term. Offices established
after this advertisement ia issued and also dur
ing the contract term, are TO be visited without
extra pay, if the distance be not increased.
IL. Bidders are cautioned to mail their promo.
sails In time to reach the Department by the day
and hour naucc % p. m, February 2, 1874, us
bids received after that time will not be consid.
cred in competition with bids, Of reasonable
amount, received in time. Neither can bids be
considered which are without the guarantee re.
CURED by law, and certificate Of the suficiency
of such guarantee, and the oath of the bidder.
according to section GAG, act Of June 8, 1872
IL. Bidders should first propose for service
strictly according to the advertisement, and
then, If they desire, separately for different ser
vice; and If the regular bid be the lowest offered
for the advertised service, the other propositions
may be considered.
10. There should be but one route bid for in
proposal. Consolidated or combination bids
C'proposing one sum for two or more routes'D
cannot be considered.
IA. The route, the service. the yearly pay, the
name and residence of the bidder THAT is, his
usual post-ofice address,, and the name of each
member OF firm. where company offers, should
be distinctly stated.
IL. Bidders are requested to use, as far as prac
ticable the printed proposals furnished 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
'hould bids once submitted be withdrawn. No
withdrawal Of q bidder or guarantor will be al.
owed unless the withdrawal is received twenty
our hours previous to the time fixed for open
~ the proposals.
Each bid must be guarasteed by two response
lie persons, The bid and guarantee should be
igned plainly with the full name of each per-
On. 4ta .ssr
The Postmaster General reserves the right to
,ject any bid which may be deemed extrava- |
ant; and also TO disregard the bids Of failing con-