Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-11

times the pay OF the trip Will be deducted
For arrivals SO far behind time as t.
break connection with depending mails
and not sufficiently excused, one-fourtl
of the compensation for the trip is sub
ject to forfeiture. For repeated delin
quencies of the kind herein specified
enlarged penalties, proportional to the
nature thereof, and the importance o.
the mail, may be made.
5. For leaving behind or throwing OF
the mails, or any portion of them, fol
the admission of passengers, or for being
concerned i'll setting up or running an
express convey ing intelligence in advance
of the mail, quarters pay may be de-
Quoted.
6. Fines will be imposed, unless the
delinquency be promptly and salts
fac:orily explained by certificates of
postmasters or the atidavits 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 suffering it to be vet, injured, des-
troyed. robbed, or lost; and for refusing,
after demand, to convey the mail as fire.
quently as the contractor runs, or Is
concerned in running, a coach car or
steamboat on route.
Z. The Postmaster General may annul
the contract for repeated failures to run
agreeably to contract; for violating the
post Office laws, or disobeying the in
structious Of the Department; for re-
fusin to dis sharge carrier when re-
quired by the d paltment to do so;
for 'nulnS an exptts IS as aforesaid; or
for transporting persons or packages
Conveying mailable matter out OF the
III Ill.
8. The Postmaster General may dis
continue or extend contract, change
the schedule and termini of "A route, and
alter, Increase, decrease or extend the
service. in accordance with the law, he
allowing a pro rata increase Of co1upen-
sation for any additional service thereby
required, or for increased speed, If the
employment of additional stock OF car
riers is rendered necessary; and in case
of decrease, curtailment, or dscontin-
uance of service, as Il full Indemnity to
Said contractor. one months extra pay
on the amount OF service dispensed with,
and pro ratI compensation for the Ser
vice retained. Procided, hotrerer, that,
IL case of increased expedition, the con-
trac tor may, upon timely notice, relin-
qulsh the contract.
8. Payments will be made by collec-
tons from, or drafts on, postm tsters or
otherwise, after the expiration of each
qnarter-say in November, February,
Nay, and August, provided that required
evidence of service has been received.
10. The distances given are believed
TO be substantially correct: but no in
crease pay will be allowed should they |
be greater than advertised If the points |
to be supplied are correctly stated. |
Bidders must inform Themselves on this |
point, and also III reference TO the weight |
of the mail, the condition of hills, roads, |
streams. &c, and all toll-bridges, turn |
pixies. plank-roads. ferries, or obstruc- |
tions of any kind by which expense may |
be incurred. No CHIN for additional |
pay, based on such ground, can be con-
sidered; nor for alleged mistakes or mis-
apprehension as to the degree Of service;
nor for bridges destroyed. ferries discon-
tinued, or other distractions causing or
increasing distance or expense occurring
during the contract term. Offices estab-
Lshed after this advertisement is issued.
and also during the contract term, are to
be visited without extra pay, if the dis
lance be not increased.
IL. Bidders are cautioned to mail their
proposals in time to reach the Depart
ment by the day and hour named g p.
NJ, February 2, 1874, as bids received
after that time ,eM not be considered in
with bids, of reasonable
received in time. Neither can
bids be considered which are without
the guarantee required by law, and a
of the sufficiency OF such
Guarantee and the oath IF fba bi31ar
according to section 246, act of June 8,
1872
II. Bidders should first propose for
service strictly according to the adver- .
isement, and then, if they desire. sep
lrdtely for different service; and if the
egular bid be the lowest offered for the
advertised service, the other propositions
nav be considered,
ID. There should be bnt one route bid
or in proposal. Consolidated or COM =
ination bids proposing one sum for
wo OF more routes cannot be consid-
red.
II. The route, the service, the yearly
ay, the name and residence of the bid =
er (thatis, his usual post-office address)
nd the name of each member of a firm,
here company offers, should be dis Y
nctly stated.
Is. Bidders are requested to use, as
= as practicable, the printed proposals
by the Department, to write {
1t in full the sum of their bids, and to
tain copies of them.
Altered bids should not be submitted: T
" should bids once submitted be with
avn. No withdrawal of a bidder or
larantor will be allowed unless the I