The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-15
MASTERS:


p0rdted an the contracts TO the extent the
Department may deem proper.
i. Seven minutes are allowed to each inter-
mediate Office when not otherwise specified, for
asserting the mails.
admits of it, 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 mails, specifying 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.
A. No pay, will be made for trips not per
formed; and for each of such omissions, if the
failure be occasioned 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 to break connection with depending
mails, and not sufficiently excused one-fourth of
the compensation for the trip if subject to for
fixture. For repeated delinquencies of the kind
herein specified, enlarged penalties, proportioned
to the nature thereof, and the importance of the
mail may be made
8. For leaving behind or throwing or the mails,
or any portion of them, for the admission of
passengers, or for being concerned in setting mp
or running an express conveying intelligence in
advance of the mall a quarters pay may be
deducted
6. Fines will be imposed unless the delinquent
cy be promptly and satisfactorily explained by
certificates OF postmasters or the afiidaylts OF
other credible persons, for failing to arrive in
contract time; for neglecting to take the mail
from, or deliver it into, post office for suffer-
ing il 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, a coach, car, or steam
boat on route. eshl5
7. 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
Ixrt Ga,Nn, .t,. for
press as aforesaid; or for Transporting persons
OF packages conveying mailable matter out OF
the mail.
s. The Postmaster General may order an in
crease of service on route by allowing there
for 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 of pay, provided the running time be
not abridged The Postmaster General may
also discontinue or cnrtail the service, in whole
in part, in order to place on the route superior
service, or whenever the public interests, in his
judgment, shall require such discontnuance or
curtailment for any other cause; he allowing as
full indemnity to contractor one months extra
pay on the amount of service dispensed with
and pro rata compensation for the amount of
service retained and continued.
g. 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 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 than advertised,
if the points to be supplied correctly stated.
Bidders must Inform themselves on this point and
also in reference to the weight of the mall the
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 misapprehension as to the degree
of service; nor for bridges destroyed ferries dis
continued, or other distractions causing in
creasing distance expense occurring during
the contract term. Offices established after this
advertisement is issued, and also during the con-
tract term, TO be visited without extra pay, if
the distance be not increased.
IL. Bidders are cautioned to mail their propo-
sails in time TO reach the Department by the day
and hour named % p. m, March 3, 1879, for bids
received after time aoiiL not be considered in com
petition with bids, of reasonable amount, re
ceived in time Neither can bids be considered
which are without the guarantee required by
law, and a certificate of The sufiiciepey of such
guarantee, and the oath of the bidder according
to section 246, act of June s, 1872.
H. bidders should first propose for service
strictly according to the advertisement, and
then, If they desire. separately for different
ice and if the regular bid be the lowest offered
for the advertised service, the other propositions
may be considered 4EE
IS. There should be but one route bid for in a
proposal. Consolidated or combination bids |
('proposing one sum for two or more rontes'') |
cannot be considered.
IA. The route, the service, the yearly pay, the
name and residence OF the bidder (that is his |