Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-10-22
INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS AND
POSTMASTERS;


Containing also conditions to be incorporated
in the contracts to the extent the Department
may deem proper.
/. Seven minutes are allowed to each inter-
mediate office, when not otherwise specified, for
asserting the mails.
2. On routes where the mode Of CONVEYANCE
admits of it, the special agents of the Postoffice
Department, also postoffice blanks mail bags.
locks and keys, are to be conveyed without ex-
ira charge.
8. Way bills" or receipts, prepared by
postmasters or other agents of the Department.
Will accompany the mails, specifying the num-
Der 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 occasioned by the fault of the con-
tractor or carrier, three times the pay of the
trip will be deducted. For arrivals SO far be-
hind time as to break connection with depend
ing mails, and not sufficiently excused, one-
fourth of the compensation for the trip is sub
Ject to forfeiture. For repeated delinquencies
of the kind herein specified, enlarged penalties
proportioned to the nature thereof, and the i'm
portance of the mail, may be made.
s.. For leaving behind or throwing off the
mails, or any portion of them, for the admission
of passengers, or for being concerned in setting
up or running an express conveying intelligence
III advance of the mail, quarters pay will be
deducted.
9. Fines will be imposed, unless the delin-
quency be promptly and satisfactorily exI lained
by certificates of postmasters or the afidavits of
other credible persons, for failing to arrive in
contract time; for neglecting to take the mail
from, or deliver it into, postoihce; for suffer
ing 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 concerned in running, coach, car, or
steamboat on route.
7. The Postmaster General may annul con-
tract for repeated failures to run agreeably to
contract; for violating the postoflice laws, or
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 mailable matter out of
the mail.
s. The Postmaster General may discontinue
or extend q contract, change the schedule and
termini of route and alter, increase, decrease,
or extend the service, in accordance with law,
he allowing pro rata increase of compensation
for any additional service thereby required, or
for increased speed, If the employment of addi-
tional stock or carriers is rendered necessary;
and i'll case of decrease, curtallment, or discon-
tinuance of service, as full indemnity to said
contractor, one months extra pay ON the amount
of service dispensed with, and pro rate COM
pensation for the service retained. Provided,
however, that in case of increased expedition,
the contractor may, upon timely notice, relin-
quish the contract.
Q. Payments will be made by collections from,
or drafts on, postmasters or otherwise, after the
expiration of each quarter-say in November,
February, May aud August, provided that re-
quired evidence of service has been received.
TO- The distances given are believed to be sub
stantially correct: but no increased pay Will be
allowed should they be greater than advertised,
II the points to be supplied are correctly stated.
Bidders must inform themselves ON this poipt,
and also in reference to the weight Of the mail,
ha nf nd
all toll-brdges, turnpikes, plank roads, ferries,
or distractions of any kind by which expense
may be incurred. No claim for additional pay,
based on such grouud, can be considered. nor
for alleged mistakes or misapprehenslon as to
the degree of service; nor for bridges destroyed,
ferries discontinued, or other distractions caus-
ing or increasing distance or expense occurring
during the contract term. Offices established
after this advertisement is issued, and also dur
ing the contract term, are to be visited without
extra pay, II 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, February 2, 1874 us
bids received after that time will not be consid-
cred in competition with bids. OF reasonable
amount, received in time. Neither can bids be
considered which are without the guarantee re-
quired by law, and certificate of the suffciency
of such guarantee, and the oath OF the bidder,
according to section 246, act of June 8. 1872.
u. Bidders should first propose for service
strictly according to the advertisement, and
then, If they desire, separately for different SER
vice. and if the regular bid be the lowest offered
for the advertised service, the other propositions
may lie considered.
Is. There should he but one route bid for in
proposal Consolidated or combination bids
(''proposing one sum for two or more routes
cannot be considered.
IA. The route, the service, the yearly pay, the
name aud residence of the bidder THAT is, his
usual post Office address), and the name OF each