Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-06-17

Saturday at $50 p. m.
Arrive at Shelbyville by $50 p. M.
| Bond required with bid, S20O.
| INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS AND POST.
MASTERS
| Containing also conditions to be incorporated in the
contracts to the extent the Department may deem
| proper.
The POSTMASTER GENERAL warns bidders and
their sureties to acquaint themselves fully with the
laws OF Congress relating to contracts for the carry
ing of the mails. the important provisions of which
are cited herein and also to familiarize themselves
with the instructions and forms herein furnished,
before they shall assume any liabilities such bid
ders or suretes, and to prevent misapprehenson
cause of complaint thereafter.
PosrMAsrERs are required to make themselves
familiar with the laws and these instructions that
they may be able to inform and direct others.
l. Seven minutes are allowed to each intermediate
oice,when not otherwise specified for asserting the
mails
| . On routes where the mode Of conveyance admits
of it, the special agents of the Post Office Depart
ment, also post office blanks, mail bags locks and
keys, are TO be conveyed without extra charge.
3. Way bills - or receipts, prepared by postmas.
tiers or other agents Of the Department, will accom-
pany the mails, specifying the numter and destina-
tion of the several bags, to be examined by the
bags and pouches
| !, No pay aill be made FOR ,rips not performed
and for each of such omissions. if the failure be
oceasioned by tho fault the contractor 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 te compensation the trip is SUI ject
70 forfeiture For repeated delinGIencies OF the
kind herein speciied enl l4rged penalties. proper
toned to the nature thereof and the Importance of
the mail may be made
;. ior leaving behind or throwing off the mails or
any portion Of them, for the admission of passen.
gers, or for being concerned in setting up or running
in express conveying intelligence in advance OF the
| mail "a quarters pay maybe deducted.
9. Fines will be imposed unless the delinquency
be promptly and satisfactorily explained By cerih
Gates of postmasters the aidagts of other credi
| Bile persons .ov failing t. arrive in contract time
for negleeting to take the mail from, deliver it
into, post Office for suffering it to be wet injured
destroyed robbed, lost and for refusing after
demand, to convey the mail frequently as the con
tractor runs is concerned in running II coach,
car, or steamboat on route.
:. tn. Postmaster Goneral may annu the contract
orrepeatel failures to agreeably to contract
Tor assigning the contract for violating the post
ohce laws or di.obeyng the in-truc ions of the De
phIliheht Iur refusing To discharge carrier Nhen
required ly the Department to do so for running
an express as afore4 ia for transporting persons
or packages conveying maiable matter out Of the
mail.
D .. The Postmaster General may order increase
o service route by. allowing therefor Il pro rata
mcreasa ON the contract pay Hemay change sched-
ule o departures and arrivals in all cases, and par-
ttGilary TO make them conform to connections with
railroads without increase Of pay provided the run.
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may also discontinue curtail the SERVICE in whole
Q or in part, order to place the route superior
service, whenever the public interests in his udg.
ment shail require such dsooutinuance curtail.
neut for ans other cause he allowing full indem-
nifty to contract ir, months extra pay on the
J. amount OF service dispensed with, and pro rata
compensation for the amount Of service retained
{ and continued.
q Payments will be made BY collections from or
drafts postmlsters otherwise, after the expi.
ration Of each quarter-say in November February,
! May. and August, provided that required evidence
Of service has been received.
H., Tie distances given believed 10 be substan-
italy correc; but no increased pas sill be allowed
should they he greater than advertised, if the points
to b. supplied correctly stated. Bidders must
inform themselves this point, and also in refer.
ence to the weight OF the mail the condition Of hills.
roads, streams, &c, and all toll bridges turnpikes
plankroads ferries. obstructions Of any kind by
which expense may be incurred. No claim for addi.
tona pay based on such ground can be considered
for alleged mistakes Misrepresentation as 10 the
degree of service for bridges destroyed ferries
discontinued, other obstruction, causing or in.
1 creasing distance or expense occurring during the
contract term. Offices established after this adyer.
tsement is issued, and also during the contract
term, to be visited without extra pay if
the distance be not increased
H. Bidders are cautioned to mail their proposals
in time to reach the Department by the day and
hour named in the advertisement, as bids received
after that time will not be considered in competition
with bids of reasonable amount received in time
Neither can bids be considered which are without
the bond, oath, and certificate required by section
245, act OF June %. 1874
r. Bidders should first propose for service strictly
according to the advertisement and then, If they
desire, separately for different service and if the
regular bid be- the lowest offered for the advertised
service, the other proposition. may be considered.
Il There should he but route bid for in Il pro.
posal Consolidated or combination bids e. propos-
ing one sum iur two more routes ~ cannot be
considered
Il The route, the service the yearly pay,the name
and edence Of the bidder, that is, his usual post
office address,l and the name ot each member Of a
firm where company offers, should be distinctly
stated
l5 Bidders requested to use. as far as practi-
, clhe, the printed proposals furnished by the De-
partment, to write out in full the of their bids
and to retain copies of them
Bids altered in he r'ute, the service. the yearly
pay, or TIE name of the bidder by er.-ures or inter-
lineation-. Should not he submitted and II so slb
mttei will not be considered in awarding the con
tracts. No withdrawal Of bid will allowed unles.
the withdrawal H. received tweny youI hunrs previous
go the time fixed for opening the proposals
ld In casr of failure of the accepted bidder tC
execute contract of the abandonment Of service
/; during thr eontfact term, the service will be re.ld
sertsed ard reet AT the expense of the failing bid
T. der or cuntracorand any accepted bidder who shal
n wronguly refuse fail 10 enter into contract il
re due form and to perform the service described il
-r proposal may be deemed guilty OF a misdemeanor
ID and, on conviction thereof, be fined and imprisoned
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