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INV o,bar person or persons or who shall have made
any agreement, shall have given or periormeu' OF
not to do any thing whatever induce any other per-
SON not to bid for mail contract. Particular attention
is called the 28th section OF the act OF Io0o'
ing combinations to prevent blddlng'
I2 hid received after time, to wit: the 10th March
next at n without the guaranty required oy laW'
or that combines several in sum of comPen-
,;r cannot he considered in competition with regu
lar proposal not adjudged to be extrayagant.


IL bidder may Offer where the transportation called
for the advertisement is dhcut or !mpracsca4es a.
veyance, intermit service specified NUMBER OF
days. weeks or months He may 70 roa ,
railway or at steamboat landing, as the case may De
or he may offer to substitute inferior mode OF supply
in such He propose different days and hours
of departure and arrival provided running time
is and it is obvious that mail connexon or other
nubIic accommodation is prejudced He may ask for more
runn;ne time to the trip. during a specified number
of days. certain seasons of peculiarly pad roaos OUT
beyond these changes proposal for service dineLen'
from the advertisement will prevent its being consider
ed in competition with regular bid not set aside Tor ex
trayagance and where bid contains any OF the above
alterations their disadvantages will be estimated In COM
pairing il with other proposals ~


IA. There should be but one route bid for In pro-
] posal -,
ders name and residence and the name of each MEM
Der of the firm, where company offers, should be dis
tincy stated-aso the mode of conveyance, higher
mode than horseback is intended


l6 The bid should be sent under seal, addressed to
the First Assistant Postmaster General, with Mail





the letter; and should be despatched in time to be
ceived by before the 10th March next, at o'clock


IL The contracts are be executed by before the
lst July next.


Is. Postmasters at Offices situated upon near rail-
roads, but than eighty rods from depot, WILL I'M
medatey after the st April next report that fact to the
department. stating their exact distance from the railroad
depot and how otherwise supplied with the mall to en-
able the Postmaster General direct the proper supply
to be made from the railroad by mail messengers, from
! and after the 1st July next.
TIo1o OIL he fo ia f0
be let TO the lowest bidder rendering sufficient guaran
ties for faithful performance without other reference to
vide for the due celery certainty and security OF such
transportation.


When the lowest bid proposes mode of conveyance
that inadequate for the route in respect to the Certain
ty security, and celebrity of the mails aside from any
accommodation for travel it will not be entitled to the
route.


90 When the bid does not name a mode of convey
ance, it will be and understood to be for the lowest
mode Of conveyance, to wit horseback. When 1t
proposes carry according to the advertisement and
mode of stated for the route in the adver
tsemen it will be considered Offering only for horse
back conveyance.


81. Since the passage of the act of March 8, 1s45,
descrp pton OF bid has been received 1t specifies
no mode of conveyance but engages to carry the mail
with certainty celerty and security, using the terms
of the law. These bids called. from the in
which they designed the books of the Department.
sc star bids 1t has been decided, after mature
sideration, that bid proposing specific mode OF con-
veyance of high grade two horse coach transpor
tation is to be preferred to the star bid The expert
ence department
ing rules, viz:


When the mail the route is not so large as to
quire two-horse coach conveyance star bid the low
est, will be preferred to the specific bid.


O. When the mails are Of such size and weight as to
render it necessary expedent in reference TO them
alone to provide two-horse coach conveyance, the
specific bid, though the highest, will be preferred to
the star bid to the extent of moderate difference in
the compensation, in the difference is not such
to interfere with the policy of the law, which looks
to reduction in the cost Transportation. Exceptions,
however. may be allowed where the star bid is made by
the present owner ofhe stock the route, and it is
manifest that the for preferrng the specific bid
do not exist in his case. .7.r.#.


2S On routes of the highest class, where four-horse
coach steamboat transportation required by the size
and Importance Of the mails, the preference for the
specific bid will be, if necessary, carried greater
extent of difference than the inferior coach routes
subject. however, to the exceptions above stated


"a modification of a bid, in any of its essential
tefms, is tanamount bid and cannot be receiv-
cd to interfere with regular competition after the
last hour set fer receiving bids.


C. JOHNSON,


Postmaster General.
Posr OFFICE DEraaTmESr' Ar 6ss12t.


Nov. %, 1886