Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-01-29

". ines Will Dc lIQpOSeU, uIlccS IuC QellD-
quency be promptly and satisfactorily explained
By certificates of postmastsrs or the afidavits OF
other credible persons, for failing to arrive in
contract time; for neglecting to take the mail
from; or denver into, post office: for suffering
1t to be wet, injured, destroyed, robbed or lost;
and for refusing, after demand, 10 convey the
mail as often as the contractor runs or is con-
cernedin running, coach, car, or steamboat on
a route. -
Z. The Postmaster General may annul the
contract FOR repeated failures to run agreeablv
to contract; for violating the post office laws, or
disobeying the instructions of the Department;
for refusing to discharge q 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 order an in
crease of service on a route by allowing therefor
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 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-
rior service. or whenever the public interests in
his judgment, shall require such discontinuance
or curtailment 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 tho amount of
service retained and continued. .. .
s. Payments will be made by collections from.
or drafts on postmasters or otherwise, after,th
expiration OF each quarter-say in November.
February, May, and August provided that re-
quired service has been received.
TO- 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 this
point and also in reference to the weight of the
mail tha pnp6itinp Of hills G.,
and all toll-bridges, turnpikes, plankroads, fer
rieS, or distractions of any kind by which ex-
pense may be incurred. No claim for additional
pay, based on such ground, can be considered
nor for alleged mistakes or misapprehension as
| to the degree of service; nor for bridges de-
stroyed, ferries discontinued, OF 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.
IL. Bidders are cautioned TO mail their pro-
posals in time to reach the Department by the
day and hour named q p. M, March 3, 1879,
for 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 a certificate of the sufciency
| of such guarantee, and the oath of the bidder
| according to 24G, act of June 3, 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 dvertised service, the other propositions
may be considered.
! Is. There should be but ono route bid for in
proposal. Consolidated or combination bids
| ('proposing one sum for two or more routes
cannot bo considered. .es
| 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 firm, where company offers,
| should be distinctly stated.
Is. Bidders arc 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
should bids once submitted be withdrawn. No
withdrawal of bidder or guaTantor will be al
lowed unless the withdrawal isreceivcd twenty
four hours previous to the time fixed for opening
the proposals.
Each bid must be guaranteed by two respon-
sible 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 s, 1872,
section 249)
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 $1,000 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, 1872
II. The contracts are 10 be eGecUted and re-
turned to the Department by or before the 1St
day of June, 1873, otherwise the accepted bidder
,1iU be considered as hasing failed, and the
Postmaster General may proceed TO contract
for the SerUice NTH other parties according to
talo.
Transfers of contracts, or of interests in COLI
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.
49, Section 249 of the act of June s, 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
of such transportation than may be necessary 10
provide for the due celebrity, certainty, and Sc
curity thereof" Under this law bids that pro-
pose to transport the mails with ''ceLerity, GER
taintg, and security" hGring been decldcd to be-
the only legal bids are constructed as proUidiRJ
for the entire mail, hogerer large, and tohat-
erer may be the mode of conrcyGnce necessary to
| insure its "ceLcrity, certainty and security
and here tile preference orcr all others, and no
others are considered, except for steamboat
routes.
10. A modification of bid in any OF It's essen
tial terms is tantamount TO 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.
90 Postmasters are to be careful not to certify
to the sutficency of guarantors without know
ing that they are persons of sufficient respons-
bility. (See section 247, act of June 8, 1927
They must not sign the certificate until the sum
of the bid is inserted d-and the bid and guaran-
tee are signed by the bidder and two guaran-
tors disregard Of this instruction By post
masters sciU subject them to immediate remor-
al, 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
iness, matter, or thing. relating to the mail SER
vice. They are the trusted agents Of the De-
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