Old Town from Helena, 20 miles, once a week.

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l, Seven minutes are allowed for opening and closing the mails at al offices where no particular time IS specified; but on railroad and steamboat routes there IS to be no more delay than is neees- sary to deliver and receive the bags

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

 3. Post office blanks, mail bags, and the special agents oi the department, the exhibition Of their credentials, 10 be conveyed without further charge on mail lines admitting of such conveyance

 1. 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 m that case, a separate apartment tor the as sorting and saiekeeping of the mail is to be pro- vlded by the contractor, under the direction of the department

 D. In all cases, there is to be forfeiture of tbe pay of the trip, when the trip is not run; forfeit ure of at least fourth part of it, when the run hing arrival is so far behind time as to lose the eonnexion with departing mail; and forfeiture of due proportion of 1t, when a grade of seryice is rendered inferior to that in the contract These torieitures may be increased into penalties of hieh CT amount according to their nature or freqency of the failure and the importance of the mail

 0. Fines will be imposed, unless the delinuuescy be satisfactorily explained ndue time for faiing to take from, or deliver at, post office, the mail ar any part of il for suffering it to be wet ininred.- Iost, or destroyed; for conveying it Tn place or manner that exposes il to depreciation loss. or in jury; for refusing after demand to convey mail hv any coach, rallToad ear. or steamboat which the contractor regularly runs the route, beyond the specified number oi trips in the contract and for not arriving at the time set. And for setting up ar running an express to transmit commercial inteHi [ gence in advance of the mail, penalty will be ex- acted equal 10 quarterspay.