SPECIAL OFFICES
{"newspaper_name": "The Arkansas banner.", "edition": "01", "page": "p4", "byline": ""}
{"character_count": 2093, "word_count": 376, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9104999899864197], "ccnet_perplexity": [1356.0999755859375], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}


 l. Seven minutes are allowed for opening and closing the mails at all offices where no particular une is specified; but on r1jroad and steamboat routes there i- to be more delay than is neees- sary to deliver aud receive ;hc bags.

 , Tine mau is 10 be conveyed in preference to passengers, and to theig entire exclusion. if is weight and bulk reqnireit.

 3. Post office blanks, mail bags and tHa sBeeiaI agents oi the department on tbe exhibition of their credentials, are to be conveyed without further charge on mail lines admitting of such convevanee.

 i. Mail agents are 10 be conveyed without charra on the principal railroad and steamboat lines where the size of the mails and the namber of the offices will require theii employment by the departments: and in that case, separate apartment for the as sorting and sae-keeping of the mail is to be pro vided by the contractor, under the direction of the department.

 ,. h all cases, there is to be forfeiture of inc pay Of the trip, when the trip is not run; forleif ure ol at least oHe-ioRrth part of it. when the run hing arrival is far behind time as 10 lose ba c0nneNlea with departing mail; and forfeiture of due proportion oi il, when grade of service IS rendered inferior 10 that in the contract These ioriehTcs may be increased into penalties of hirb ei amount, according to their nature or ireqency of the iaiinre and the importance of the mail

 6. Fines will be imposed. unless the delinpuenc, be satisfactorily explained in due time for laur f, take from, CT deliver at, post office, the mail. or any Parl Of 1t for SaieBng il to be wet nipra1- Iest, or destroyed; for conveying it Tn place or manner that exposes 1t 10 deIsedaton, loss. or in jury, for refusing after demand to convey mail bv aay coach, gaflfoad car or steamboat which inc contractor regularly runs on the route beyond the specified number oi trips in the contract: and for nol arriving al the time set And for setting un or running an express to transmit commercial intelli genee in advance of the mail, penalty will be ex acted equal to quarters pay.