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 l. 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 isncces- sary to deliver and receive the bags.

 ). The mai- is to be conveyed in preference 10 passengers, and 10 their entire exclusion, if it's weight and balk requgeit

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

 1. Mailagents are to L. 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 ln that case, a separate apartment for the as sorting and saiekeeping of the mail is to be pro- vided by the eo,araCtor, under the direction ol the department

 }. In all cases there is to be forfeiture of the pay of the rip, when the trip is not run; forfeit of at least one fourth part of it. when the run hing arrivalis so far behind time as to lose the conneXion witla departing mail; and forfeiture of dae proportion of 1t, when grade of service is rendered inferior to that in the contract These orietures may be increased into penalties of hiqh- CT amount according to their nature ireqency of the failure and the importance of the mail

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