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!. oHe3l htlHuttN afs allowed for 0penlnr and closing thn mail. as all offices where no particular tne s specified; hat on railtaad and steamboat routes there is to be ao more deIg than is neces- sary to deliver and receive the bags

 7. Ihe mail ls t1 h, conveyed in preference ia pass HIers, and tU their entire exclusion if ifs weight and balk fcguirsit.

 ,. Post office blanks mail bags, and the special agents O. the department on the exhibition of their credentials, are 10 be conveyed without further charge on mail lines admitting of such conveyance

 i. Mai agents are to be conveyed without charge on the principal railroad and steamboat lines. where the size ot tie mails and the nanber of the offices will require taeiI employment by the department; and in that case, separate apartment Tor the as- sorting and sate-Eeeping oi the mai Is to be nro- uded by the contractor under the direction of the department

 j. In all cases there is to be forfeiture of the pay of the trip, when the trip is not run; forfeit ure oi at least onetourth part of it. when the run ming arrival is far behind time as to lose thc connexion with departing mail; and forfeiture ot due proportion ot it, when grade of service is rendered inferior 10 that in the contract. These iorieitureS may be increased into penalties of high CT amount according to their nature or reqencV of the failure and the importance of the mail

 6. Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquency be satisfactorily explained iR due tme for failing o take from, or deliver a post office, the alail. or aay part of 1t for suffering it to be wet, iniured.- Iost, or destroyed; for conveying 1t m place or manner that exposes t to depreciation loss. or in Jury, tof refusing after demand to convey mail by any coach, rallload car, or steamboat which the contractor regularly runs on the route beyond the specified number of trips in the contract; and for not arriving al the time set And for setting up or running an express to transmit commercial inteli- gence Tn advance of the mail, penalty will be ex- acted equal to quarters pay