SPECIAL OFFICES .
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l. Seven minutes are allowed for opening and closing the mails at all offices where no particular time Is specified; hut on railroad and steamboat routes there is to b. no more delay than is Aeees- sary to deliver and receive the bags.

 ,. The mail is to b. conveyed in preference to passengers, and b their eRtire exclusion. if is weight and bulk requreit

 ,. Post office blanks, mai bags. and the sbeeiaI agents ot the depar5ment ea tie exhibition o their credentials, are to be conveyed without further charge on nail lines admitting of such congevance

 + Mai agents are to b5 conveyed without cbarss on the principal railroad and steamboat lines where the size ot the mails and the mA5er of fine offices WilI require taeii employment by the department: and m That case, a Spaiate apartment for the a, sorting and sae-keepiAg Of the mail is to be pro lided by tine contractor, nader the direction oi the department.

 ,. In all eases there is to he forfeiture of inc pay o the ttip, when tie trip s not r,in: forfeit ure of at least one fourth part o it. when inc rpn hing or arrival is so far behind time as to lose fbp conneNion with departing HlaiI and forfeiture oi due proportion of t, when a grade of sar,ica iS rendered inferior to that in the contract These ioreiuses may be increased into penalties of hjyh CT amount, according Ia their nature or freaeneV of the failure and the importance of thc mail

 0. Fines will be imposed, unless the delin0peacv De satisfactorily explained indae time for fling to take from, or dehycr at post office. the mail. or any Parl ol Il for sutIerlag It to De wet inurad.- loSi or @estFoYed for conveying 1t m place or manner that exposes ii 10 depreciation, loss, or in JuFy for reIusng alter demaR3 to convey mail Inv any coach, railroad car, CT steamboat. which fbe contractor regularly r0ns on the route. beyond the SHecihed number oi trips in the contract; anj for not arriving at the time set. And for spttinr m or running an express to transmit commercial infeni gence.ln advance of the mail. d penalty will be ex acted equal to quarters pay