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|. Seven minutes are allowed for opening and closing the mails at all offices where no particular time Is speclhed; hut on railroad and steamboat routes there is to be no delay than is noces- sary to deliver and receive the bags.

 ,. Tha mail is to be conveyed in preference 10 passengers, and to tAeif entire exclusion, if it's weight and hus. regqife t.

 ,. Post office elan~s, mail bags, and inc special agents O. the department, on ghe exhibitoaoi their credentials, are to be conveyed without farther charge on mail lines ad0itting of such conveyanee

 i. Mail agents are te be conveyed without charre the principal railroad and steamboat lines where the size ui the mails and .he ngmbcr Of the offices Will leqare taeif employment by the department: and la that ease, stFarat. apartment for the as- sorting and saie-keepiag oI the mail is to be pro vlded by the contractor under the direction of the department.

 ,, all cases, there is to be forfeiture of the pay of the trip, when the trip is not run; forfeit ure of at least one fourth part of it. when the rnn ming or arrival is so far behind time as to lose the conneXion with departing mail; and forfeiture of a due proportion of il, when grade of service Is rendered inferior to that in the contract These ioreiures may be increased into penalties of high amount, according b their nature or freqency of the failure and the importance of the mail.

 6. Fines will be imposed, unless the delinauency be satisfactorily explained in due time, for failing 10 take from, or deliver at, post office, the mail or any part of 1t fer suffering it to be wet iniured.- Iost or destroyed; for conveying it in nIace or manner that exposes it to depreciation loss, or in jury; for refusing after demand to convey mail by any coach, railroad car, or steamboat which the contractor regularly runs on the route beyond the specified number ot trips in the contract; and for not arriving at the time set And for setting up or running an express te transmit commercial inteni- genee in advance of the mail; penalty will be ex- acted equal to quarters pay.

 