The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-02-13

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day and year aforesaid.
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| NoTE.-When the oath is taken before a Justice
of the peace, the certificate of the clerk of court
of record should be added, under his seal of Office
| that the person who administered the oath is a
duly qualified justice of the peace.
INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS AND POST
MASTERS,
| Containing also conditions to be incorporated
in the contracts 10 the extent the Depart
ment may deem proper
| 1. Seven minutes are allowed to each interme-
diate office, when not otherwise specified, for
asserting the mails.
| 2. On routes where the mode of conveyance adj
mits of it, the special agents Of the Post Office
Department, also post Office blanks, mail bags
locks and keys, to be convey ed without extra
charge.
3. ssWay bills or receipts prepared b. post
masters, or other agents of the Department, will
accompany the mails, specifying the ntihber and
destination ofthe several bags, to be examined by
the postmasters, to insure regularity in the de-
livery of bags and pouches.
a. No pay viii be made for trips not performed;
and for each of such omissions, if the failure be
occasioned by the fault of the contractor or car
rier, three times the pay of the trip will be de-
Quoted. For arrivals so far behind time as to
break connection with depending mails, and not
sufficiently excused one fourth Of the compensation
for the trip IS subject to forfeiture. For repeats
ed delinquences of the kind herein specified, en-
Urged penaltie:, proportional to the nature there
Of and the importance of the mail, may be-
made.
Fo~ Jncv HAHN h Y,
or any portion of them, for the admission of pas
sengers, or for being concerned in setting up or
running express conveying intelligence in ad
vance of the mail, quarter pay may be dcduc-
ted.
q. Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquan-
cy be promptly and satisfactorily explained by
certificates of postmasters the afidavts of 9TH
er credible persons, for failing to arrive in con-
tract time for negleeting to take the mail from,
CT deliver it into post Office; for suffering 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 concern
ed in running, a coach, car, or steamboat
route.
Z. The Postmaster General may annul the
contract for repeated failures to run agreeably to
contract for violating the post office laws,
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 mai}ahle matter out of the
mail,
8. The Postmaster General may order an in
crease of service a route by allowing therefor
pro rata Increase on the contract pay. He may
change schedules of departures and arrivals in
all cases, and particularly to make them conform
to connection with railroads, without increase of
pay, provided the running time be not abridged
The Postmaster General may also discon' niue or
curtail the service, in whole or in part in order
to place on the route superior service, or when
ever the public interests, in his judgment, shall
require such discontinuance or eurtailnent for
any other cause he allowing as full indemnity
to contractor one months extra pay en- the a.
mount 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 otherwise, after the
expiration Of each auarter-say in November,
February. May, and August: provided that re- |
qured evidence of service has bsea received.
u TO- The distances given are believed to be
substantially correct but no increased pay will
hg allpwed should they be greater thaa adver-
tised, The points to be supplied are correctly
stated. Elders must inform themselves this Foiat
and also in reference to the weight of the mall |
the condition of hills, roads, streams, &c, and all
toll bridges turnpikes, pank-roads, ferries, or
of any kind by which expense pay /
be incurred. N o claim for additional pay, BASED I
on such ground, can be considered nor for alleg I
ed mistakes or Misrepresentation as to the degree
of service; nor for bridges destroyed ferries dis
continued, or other Instructions causing or in
creasing distance expense occurring dur ing the /
contract term. Offices established after this adj
yertisement is issued. and also during the CON-
tract term are to be visited without extra pay if
the ii: anee be- NOT increased. !.