Arizona citizen., 1875-01-09

be made for any increase of expedition i carrying the mail unless thereby the enl ploymeDt of additional stock and carrier is made necessaryj aud in such case the ad 1 dilional compensation shall bear no greate proportion to the additional stock and car riers necessarily employed than the com pensation in the original contract bears t, the stock and carriers necessarily employed bin its execution.
 tDeductions may be made, and. fines i'm
 posed, for deiihqdencies.
 Sec. 266. That the Postmaster Genera may make deductions from the pay of con- tractors for failures to perform service nc cording to contract, and impose fines upon them for other delinquencies. He may de- duct the price of the trip in all cases where the trip is not performed; and not exceed ing three times the price if the failure be occasioned by the fault of the contractor or carrier.
 Contracts cannot be assigned nor trans-
 ferred.
 Sec. 271. That no contractor for trans porting the mail within or between the United States and any foreign country shall assign or transfer his contract, and all such assignments or transfers shall be null and void.
 Schedules to be furnished and posted up in
 post offices. Registers to be re-
 turned and reports made.
 Sec. 70. That the Postmaster General shall furnish to the postmasters at the ter : imitation of each route schedule of the time of arrival and departure of the mail at their offices, espectively, to be posted in a conspicuous place in the office; and the Postmaster General shall also give the post master notice of any change in the arrival and departure that may be ordered and he shall cause to be kept and returned to the Department, at short and regular inter- vals, registers showing the exact times of the arrivals and departures of the mail.
 By act of Congress approved April 2l, 1908, no member of Congress can be con- tractor, or be concerned, directly or indi rectly, in any contract with the Govern ment; and by the same act 1t is made q high misdemeanor for any officer of the United States to enter, in it's behalf, into contract with q member of Congress.
 But if member withdraw from a con tract it may be concluded with the other partners Opinion of Attorney General, 1, AT. A contract with one who is elected member of Congress during it's continuance is not affected by such election.-Ibid., 5, 697.l
 The Postmaster General has no power, under the law to release bidders and con tractors and their sureties from their liabil- ities on the allegation of real or supposed mistakes of any kind in making proposals. He particularly requests that, before bid ding, the fullest inquiry and investigation be made in regard to the route, distance, service, weight of mails, ccst of stock, feed, and all expenses existing and likely to oc- cur during the contract term, and with due consideration Of the consequences imposed by law on delinquents.
 Contracts to be executed and filed in the
 department by the first day of
 June.
 Under the provisions of section 245 of the act approved June g, 1874, the Postmaster General has prescribed the lst day of June, 1875, on or before which day the contracts of accepted bidders must bo received at the Department in Washington, executed in due form.
 Accepted bidders not complying with this regulation shall be consi dered as having failed to comply with their proposals, and the Postmaster General may proceed to contract for the service with other parties, to law,
 Contracts received at the Department af- ter June lst will not be considered by the Postmaster General.
 FORM OF PROPOSAL, BOND, AND
 CERTIFICATE.
 Proposal. The undersigned - -, whose post office address is -, county of -, State of -, proposes to carry the mails of the United States, from July l, 1875, to June 30, IS7 on route Mo- -, between -a and -, State of -, under the advertise nent of the Postmaster Gen eral, dated De- 1 har 1874 (.u-itb oalar;,1