The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1873-11-22
u Bidders should first propose for ser

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vice strictly according to the advertise
msLt, and then if they desire, separately
for different service; and if the regular bid
be the lowest offered for the advertised
service, the other propositions may be con
sidered.
IS; There shoald be but one route bid
for in proposal. Consolidated or COM
bination bids (''proposiDg one sum for two
or more routes cannot be considered.
a. The route, the service, the yearly
pay, the name and residence of the bidder
(that is, bis usual post Office address,. and
the name of each member of firm. where
company offers, should be distinctly
stated.
ID. Bidders are requested to use, as far
as practicable. the printed proposals fur
nished by the Department, TO write ont
ia full the SUM of their bids, and 10 return
copies of them.
Altered bids should not be- submitted;
nor shOmld bids once submitted be with.
drawn. No withdrawal of bidder or
guarantor will be allowed unless the with
drawal is received twenty:four hours pre-
vious to the time fixed for opeuing the pro.
posals.
Each bid must be guaranteed by two
tee should be signed plainly with f..n name
OF each person.
the Postmaster General reserves tho
right to reject any BID whicA may Be
deemed extTavagant; and also to disregard
the bids of failing contractors and bidders.
(Act Of June 6, 1872, section 249.) ,r5
Is. The bid Should b5 scaled, supper
scrIbed "Mai Proposals, TERRITORY Of
Arizona addressed Second Assistant
Postmaster General, Contract Office :
Bids of $4,000 per annuE and upward
must be accompanied by certified check,
or draft, on some solvent national bank.
equal Co FIVE per cent. of the amount; also
bids f0f service which now costs SIS 900
OF more per annum. Where the present
pay Is s., 900 OF more it Is stated in the
advertisement under tn appropriate route.
II. he contracts az to be executed and
returned to the Department BY or before
the let day g. June 1874, otherwise the
accepted bidder viii be considered as hay-
ing failed. and rae Postmaster General may
proceed to contract Tor the service with
other parties according to law.
Transfers of contracts, OK 81 interest
IN contracts are forbidden by law, and
consequently cannot BIZ allowed. Neither
can bids, or interest in bids, be trans
ferred or assigned to other parties
Bidders will therefore take notice that they
will be expected to perform the service
awarded to them through the whole con-
tract term.
is. Section 249 of an act of June i.
1872, provides that contracts for the trans
portation of mail shall be awarded to the
lowest bidder rendering sufficient guaran-
tee for faithful performance, without other
reference to the mode of such transporta-
ton than may be necessary to provide
for the due celebrity, certainty, and security
thereof" Under this law bids that pro-
pose to transport the mails with "celerity,
certainty. and security" having been de-
cided to be the only legal bids, are con-
strued as providing for the entire mail,
however large, and whatever may be the
mode OF conveyance necessary TO insure its
CELEBRITY, certainty, aud security" and
have the preference over all others, and
no others are considered, except for steam
boat routes
l9. A modification ola bid in any Of lis
essential terms is tantamount to a new bid,
aud cannot be received, SO as to interiors
with regular competition, Making a new
bid, with guarantee aid certificate, is the
only way to modify previous bid.
~. POstmasters are to be careful not to
certify to the sufficiency or guarantors
without knowing that they are persons of
sufficient responsibility. (See section PAT,
act of June 8, 1922 Taey must not sign
the certificate until the sum of the bid is.
inserted. and the bid and guarantee are
signed by the bidder ard (two) guarantors:
disregard of this instruction by the post
masters will subject them to immediate
removal and to servere penalties.
Postmasters are also liable to dismissal
from office for acting as agents of contrac-
tors or bidders, with or without compen-
sation, in any business, matter, or thing re-
lating to the mail service They are the
trusted agents Of the Department, and
| cannot consistently act IN both capacities
u. All bidders, guarantors. and sureties
are distinctly notified that on q failure to
enter into or perform the contracts for the
| service proposed for in the accepted bids,
their legal liabilities will be enforced
against them
p. Present contractors, and persons
known at the Department, mnst, equally
with Others. procure guarantors and certi-
ffcates of their suficieney substantially IN
the forms above prescribed. The certi6-
cate of sufficiency must be signed by q
postmaster,
%. In all cases where the routes are
not fully supplied with the necessary locks
and pouches, it is the duty of the postmas-
ter at the head of the route to make re-
| QUESTION on the Contract Office OF this
Department for sHch locks and pouches
before list July mex. provided he route
he lot.
JNO. Z. j. CRESWELL.
Eovl 6t Postmaster General