SPECIAL OFFICES
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N o T E s.

 |. 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 is neces- sary to deliver and receive the bags.

 ,. The mail is to be conveyed in preference to passengers, and 10 their entire exclusion, if its weight and bulk require it.

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

 l. Mail agents are to be conveyed without charge 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 department; and in that case, separate apartment Tor the as. sorting and satekeeping of the mail is to be pro- vidod ny the contractor under the direction of the department

 5 In all cases, there is to be forfeiture of the pay of the trip when the trip is not run; forfeit ure of al least oneiourth part of it, when the run ming or arrival is so far behind time as 10 lose the canneXlon with departing mai1 and forfeiture of due proportion of it, when . grade of service IS rendered interior to that in the contract These orfetures may be increased into penalties of high CT amount, according to their nature or freqency o the failure and the importance of the mail

 6. Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquency be satisfactorily explained in due time for failing to take from, or deliver at, post office, the mail or any part of 1t for suffering it to be wet injured = Iost or destroyed; for conveying it Tn place or manner that exposes it to depreciation, loss or in jury; for refusing after demand to convey a mail by any coach, railroad 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 intell- gence in advance of the mail, penalty will be ex- acted equal to quarter. pay