SPECIAL OFFICES
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|. Seven minutes are allowed for opening and closing the mails at all offices where no particular time Is specified; but on railroad and steamboat rontss there IS to be no mere delay than is naces- sagY to deliver and receive the bags

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

 5 Post office blanks, mail bags and the special agents ot fine departmont on the exhibition Of their credentials, are 10 be conveyed without further charge on mail lines admitting of such conveyance.

 l, Mali agents are to b. conveyed without charre on the principal railroad and steamboat lines where the size ot the mails 3Ha the number of the offices Wiitfeqajfe theit employment by the department; and Tn that case, a separate apartment for the as- sorting and Saie-leeping of the mail is to be pro vided by the contractor, under the direction of the department.

 }. In all cases, there is to ba forfeiture of the pay of the trip, when the trip is not run: forCeit ure of at least one-iourh part of t, when the run ming arrival Is so far behind time as to lose the conneXion with departing mail; and forfeiture of due proportion of it. when grade of service is rendered inferior to that in the contract These ioneitures may be increased into penalties of high CT amount, according to their nature or reqencV of the failure and the importance of the l2ail

 G. Fines will be imposed, unless the delinouenev be satisfactorily explained in due time for failino in take from, or deliver at, post oiice the mail or any part of 1t for suffering 1t to be wet iniured.- lost, or destroyed; for conveying il n a'place or manner that exposes Il to depreciation loss or in jury; for refusing after demand to convey q mail b,, any coach, railroad ear, Or steami,oat. which inc contractor regularly rms on the route, beyond the specified number ol trips in the contract and far- not arriving al the time set And fer settinp m ar running express to transmit commercial inteIli. genee in advance of the mall, penalty wifi be ex acted equal to quarters pay