N o T E 5
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l. Seven minutes are allowed for opening and closing the mails at all offices where no particular time is specifed but on railroad and steamboat routes there is to be no delay than is ncces- sary to deliver and receive the bags.

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

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

 f Mail agents are to be conveyed without charge on the principal railroad and steamboat lines where the size of the mails and the number of the offices will require their employment by the department; and in that case, a separate apartment for the as sorting and sale-keeping of the mail is to be pro- yided by the contractor under the direction of the department

 5. In all cases there is to be a 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 run ming or arrival is so far behind time as to lose the connexion with departing mail; and forfeiture of a due proportion of it, when grade of service is rendered inferior to that in the contract. These iorleitures may be increased into penalties of high amount according to their nature or freqency of the failure and the importance of the mail

 6. Fines will be imposed, unless the denauencv be satisfactorily explained in due time for failing to take from, or deliver at, post office, the mail or any part of il for suffering it to be wet, iniured.- Iost or destroyed; for conveying il Tn a plaee ar manner that exposes it to depreciation loss or in. jury; for refusing after demand to convey mail by any coach, railroad car, steamboat, which the contractor regularly runs on the route, beyond the specified number of trips in the contract; and for not arriving at the time set. And for setting up or running an express to transmit commercial intelli gence in advance of the maii penalty will be ex- acted eIfial to quarters pay