Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Advertisement of December 31, 1862, Inviting Proposals for Carrying the Mails of the Confederate States in the State of Virginia, From July 1, 1863, to June 30, 1867
Sec. 24, act of July 2, 1836. That the Postmaster General shall not be bound to consider the bid of any person who shall have wilfully or negligently failed to perform or execute a prior contract.
In relation to combinations among bidders to prevent bidding.
Sec. 28, act of July 2, 1836. That no contract for the transporta tion of the mail shall knowingly be made by the Postmaster General with any person who shall have entered into any combination, or pro posed to enter into any combination, to prevent the making of any bid for a mail contract by any other person or persons, or who shall have made any agreement, or shall have given or performed, or pro mised to give or perform, any consideration whatever, or to do, or not to doz anything whatever, in order to induce any other person or persons not to bid for a mail contract. And if any person so offend ing be a mail contractor, he may be forthwith dismissed from the service of the department: Provided, That whenever the Postmaster General shall exercise the power conferred on him by this section, he shall transmit a copy or statement of the evidence on which he acts to Congress at its next session.
No pay 'to be made until contracts are executed; nor for additional service, unless previously ordered.
Sec. 29, act of July 2, 1836; That no person whose bid for the transportation of the mail may be accepted, shall receive any pay until he shall have executed his contract according to law and the regulations of the department; nor shall any payment be made for any additional regular service in the transportation of the mail, unless the same shall have been rendered in obedience to a prior legal order of the Postmaster General.
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