The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-02-22
INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS AND POST
MASTERS:


| Department may deem, proper.
l. Seven minutes are allowed to each inter-
mediate office, when not otherwise specified, for
| asserting the mails.
! Q. On routes where the mode of conveyance
admits of 1t, the special agents of the Post Office
| Department, also post office blanks, mail bags.
locks and keys, are to be conveyed without extra
charge.
3. "Way bills" or receipts prepared by post
| masters, or other agents Of the Department. will
accompany the malls, spec tying the number
and destination of the several bags, to be ex-
amined by the postmasters, to insure regularity
! in the delivery of bags, and pouches.
4. No pay will be made for trips not per
formed; and for each of such omissions, If the
failure be occasloned by the fault of The contrac
| tor or carrier, three times the pay of the trip
will be deducted. For arrivals so far behind
time as to break connection with depending
mails, and not sufficiently excused, one-fourth of
the compens alton for the trip If subject to for
feiture For repeated delinquencies of the kind
herein specified, enlarged penalties, proportioned
| to the nature the eof, and the importance of the
mail, may be made
8. For leaving behind or throwing off the mails,
| or any portion of them, for the admission of
or running an express conveying intelligence in
| advance of the mail, quarters pay may be
deducted.
s. Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquen
| cy be promptly and satisfactorily explained by
certificates OF postmasters or the affidavits of
other credible PERSONS. for failing to arrive in
toHtluSt tiiucI lOT utRIeClllB 10 take tue
from, or deliver 1t into. post office for suffe
ing it to be wet, injured, destroyed, robned, or
| lost; and for refusing, afteI demand, to convey
the mail as frequently as the contractor runs,
| Is concerned In running, coach, car, or steam
boat on q route
7. The Postmaster General may annul the
contract for repeated failures to run agreeably
to contract, for violating the post Office la ws.
disobeying the Instructions of the department;
for refusing TO discharge carrier when CURED
by the department to do so; for running an ex
a far frune NNr tfrr Ns.o
| the mail.
8. The Postmaster General may order an In
crease OF service on Ioute by allowing there
| for pro rata increase on the contract paw. He
may change schedules of departures and arri-
| walls In all cases. and particularly TO make them
conform to connections with railroads, without
| increase of 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 pac- on the route superior
judgment, shall require such discontinuance or
| curtailment for any other cause; he allowing as
pay on the amount of service dispensed with,
| and pro rata compensation for the amount of
| service retained and continued
| Q. Payments will be made by collections from,
or drafts on. ostmasters or otherwise, after the
| expiration of each quarter-say in November,
! February, May, and August provided that re-
| quired evidence of service has been received.
10. The distances given are believed to be SUBJ
| stantially correct; but no increased pay will be
| allowed should they be greater tn m advertised,
II the points TO be supplied are rrectly stated.
Bidders must Inform themselves on this point and
also in reference TO the weight of the mail th Q
condition of hills, roads, streams, &C., and all
toll-bridges, turnpikes, plank-roads ferries, or
| Instructions Of any kind by which expense may
be incurred. No claim tor additional pay, based
on such ground, can be considered; nor for alleg.
ed mistakes or Misrepresentation to the degr Q
of service; nor fer bridges destroyed ferries dis
continued, or other Instructions causing OF in-
creasng distance or expense occurring during
the contract term. Offices established after this
| advert ement is issued and also during the con.
tract term, are 10 be visited without extra pay Il
| the distance be not increased.
| H. Bidders are cautioned to mail their propo
sails in tune to reach the Department by the day
and hour named Is M, March 8, iS7SI for bid,
received after time aoilL net be considered in com
petition with bids, of reasonable amount re
ceiyed in time Neither can bids be considered
which are without the guarantee required by
law, and a certificate of the sufficepcy of such
guarantee, and the oath of the bidder according
to section 246, act of June s, 1872
IL. idders should first propose for service
strictly according TO the advertisement. and
then, If they desire. separately for different serv
Ice; aud II the regular bid be the lowest offered
for The advertised service. the other propositions
may be considered.
49, There should be but one route bid for In ,
| proposal. Consolidated or combination bid
t'prlposfng one sum for two or more rontes''
| cannot be considered
IA. The route, the service, tine yearly pay, tn
name and residence Of the bidder chat Is hi