Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-01-23

| from, OF denver INTO, post office: for sunerlnS
it to be wet, injured, destroyed, robbed or lost:
| and for refusing after demand, TO convey the
| mail as often as the contractor runs or is con-
cernedin running, aeoach, car, or steamboat on
a route.
1.-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 carrier when required
by the Department to do so; for running an e1.
press as aforesaid; or for transporting persons
or packages conveying mailable matter out of
the mail.
s. The Postmaster General may order an in
crease of service on route by allowing therefor
a pro rata increase on the contract pay. He
may change schedules of departures and arri.
walls i'll all cases, and particularly to make them
conform to connections with railroads, without
increase ct 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 supe-
ror service. or whenever the public interests in
his Judgment shall require such discontinuance
or curtallment for any other cause he allowing
| as full indemnity to contractor one months ex-
| ira pay on the amount of service dispensed with.
and 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, and August, provided that re-
quired service has been received:
10. The distances given are believed to be
substantially correct; but no increased pay will
be allowed should they be greater than adver-
tised, if the points to be supplied are correctly
stated. Bidders must inform themselves on Mis
point, and also in reference to the weight of the
mail, the condition of hills roads, streams, &C.,
and all toll-bridges, turnpikes pank-roads, fer
ries, or distractions of any fkind by which e1.
pense 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 de-
stroyed, ferries discontinued, or other obstruc-
tions causing or increasing distance or expense
occurring during the contract term. Offices es-
tablished after this advertisement is issued and
also during the contract term, are to be visited
without extra pay, if the distance be not in
creased.
H. Bidders are cautioned to mail their pro.
posals in time to reach the Department by the
day and hour named e p. m, March 8, 1879,
Tor bids received after that time will not be con-
sidered in competition with bids, of reasonable
amount, received in time Neither can bids be
considered which are without the guarantee re-
quired by law, and certificate of the sufieiency
Of such guarantee, and the oath of the bidder
according to 246, act of June 8, 1872
II. Bidders should first propose for service
strictly according to the advertisement, and
then if they desire, separately for different SER
vice; and if theregular bid be the lowest offered
for the advertised SERVICE the other propositions
may be considered.
III
proposal. Consolidated or combination bids
C'prOposing one sum for two or more routesn)
cannot be considered.
II. The route, the service the yearly pay, the
name and residence of the bidder (that is, his
usual post Office address,, and the name of each
member of q firm, where company offers
should be distinctly stated.
. 10. Bidders are requested to use as far as prac-
tlcable, the printed proposals furnished by the
Department. TO write out in full the sum of their
n Of
Altered bids should not be submitted nor
should bids once submitted be withdrawn. No
wlthdEaw of bidder or guarantor will be al
lowed unless the withdrawal is received twenty
four hours previous to the time fl led for opening
the proposals.
Each bid must be guaranteed by two respon-
sibe persons. The bid and guarantee should
be signed plainly with the full name of each
person.
The Postmaster General reserves the right to
reject any bid which may be deemed extrava-
CANT and also to disregard the bids Of failing
contractors and bidders. (Act of June 8, 1879,
section 49)
16 The bid should be sealed, superscribed
Mail Proposals, State Of ;" ad-
dressed Second Assistant Postmaster General,
Contract Office" and sent by mail, not by or to
an agent. Bids of $5,0 900 per annum and up.
ward must be accompanied by certified check
or draft on some solvent national bank, equal
to per cent of the amount. (See law of Con
gress of June 8, 1922
IL. The contracts are to be crecuted and re-
turned to the Department By or before the 1st
,oiU be considered as ha,ing failed, and the
Postmaster General may proceed to contract
for the sereice with other parties, according to
tat0
Transfers of contracts, or of interests in con-
tracts are forbidden by law, and consequently
cannot be allowed. Neither can bids, or inter-
est in bids, be transferred or assigned to other
parties. Bidders will therefore take notice
that they will be expected to perform the service
awarded to IL EN- through the whole contract
term. s,.. t..... 4r "
49, Section 249 of the act of June 8, 1872, pro-
vides that contracts for the TRANSPORTATION of the
mail shall be awarded to the lowest bidder
rendering sufficient guarantees for faithful per-
formance, without other reference to the mode
ofsueh transportation than may be necessaryt 10
provide for the due ceerity, certainty, and Sc
curity thereof" Under this law bids that pro-
pose to transport the mails with ''celerity, GER
{ mtg, and security" haring been decided to be
only legal bids, are constructed as previding
crer may be the mode of conveyance necessary to
insure ats ''eeteritB certainty, and security"
and hare the preference over all Others, and no
others are considered, except for steamboat
routes. .. ..
49, A modification of bid in any of its essen
tial terms is tantamount to a new bid, and can
not be received, so as to interfere with regular
competition. Making new bid, with guaran-
tee and certificate, IS the only way to modify q
previous bid. - -
20. Postmasters are to be careful not to certify
to the suficiency of guarantors without know
ing that they are persons of sufficient RESPONSE
bllity. (See section 247, act of June 8, 1871
They must not sign the certificate until the sum
tee are signed by the bidder and (two) Suaran-
tors; disregard of this instruction. 5y post
masters tciH subject them to immediate remor-
at and to serere penalties.
Postmasters are also liable to dismissal from
Office for acting as agents of contractors or bid
ders, with or without compensation, in any bus
mess, matter, thing, relating to the mail SER
vice. They are the trusted agents sf the De-
partment, and cannot consistently act in both
capacities. -s ia os-rfs -ets .fI
3 2l. ALI bidders, guarantors, and sureties are
distinctly notified that on a failure to enter in
to or perform the contracts for the service pre-
posed for in the accepted bids their legal lisbiI.
tiles will be enforced against them.
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