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1. Seven minutes are allowed for opening and closing the mails at all offices where no particular time is specified; but on railroad and steamboat routes there is to be no more delay than IS ncces- sary to deliver and receive the bags.

 j The mail is to be conveyed in preference to passengers, and to their entire exclusion, Ii It's weight and bulk require 1t.

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

 4 Mail agents are to be conveyed without charge on the principal railroad and steamboat lines, where the size of the mails and the number ot the oihces will require their employment by the departments and in that case, separate apartment for the as sorting and keeping of tine mail IS to be pro vided by the contractor, under the direction oi the department.

 ,. 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 one-fourh part of it, when the run

 nr or arrival is so far behind time as to lose the connexon with departing mail and forfeiture of due proportion of 1t, when grade ot service is rendered inferior to that in the contract These iorfeitures may be increased into penalties Of high CT amount, according to their nature or regency o the failure and the importance of the mail 6. Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquency be satisfactorily explained indue time, for failing |