SPECIAL OFFICES
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 l. Seven minutes are allowed for opening and closing the mails at all offices where no particular time is sp2cilied but on railroad and steamboat routes tbere is to be no mere delay than is neces- sary to deliver and receive the bags.

 ?. The mail is to be conveyed in preference to passengers. and to their entire exclusion, if it's weight and bulk require it.

 3. Post office blanks, mail bags, and the special agents of the department on the exhibition of their credentials, are to be conveyed without further charge on mail lines admitting of such convevance

 1. Mail agents are to be conveyed without charge on the principal railroad and steamboat lines where the size of the mails and the number of the offices will require their employment by the departments and Tn that case, separate apartment for the as- sorting and saie-keeping of the mail is to be pro- vded by the contractor, under the direction of the department.

 5. In all cases, there is to be forfeiture of the pay of the trip, when the trip is not run; forfeit ure of at least onefourth part of it, when the run ming arrival is so far behind time as to lose the conneXlon with departing mail; and forfeiture of due proportion of it, when grade of service IS rendered inferior to that in the contract These iorfeitures may be increased into penalties of high CT amount according 10 their nature or freoency of the failure and the importance of the mail

 6. Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquency be satisfactorily explained in due time, for falingto take from, or deliver at, post office, the mail or any part of It for suffering 1t to be wet, iniured- Iost or 6estroyed;. for conveying it Tn a place or manner that exposes it to depreciation, loss, or in Jury; for refusing after demand to convey a mail by any coach, railroad car, or steamboat which the contractor regularly runs on the reute beyond the specified number of trips in the contract and for not arriving at the time set And forssettinr up or running an express to transmit commercial intelli. gence Tn advance ot the mail, penalty will be ex- acted equal to quarters pay.

 