Chapter 379. to authorize the Postmaster-General to extend the mail service in certain cases and for other purposes
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CHAP. 379.— An Act to authorize the Postmaster-General to extend the mail service in certain cases and for other purposes.August 3, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Postmaster-General authorized to extend certain mail service. That the Postmaster General is hereby authorized, in cases where the mail service would be thereby improved, to extend service on a mail route under contract, at not exceeding pro rata additional pay, for any distance not exceeding twenty- five miles beyond either terminal point named in said contract: *Proviso.**provided,* That no service shall be extended beyond the original terminal points more 1h n once during the term for which the contract shall have been made.
Sec. 2. Whenever a contractor for postal service fails to commenceFailure of contractor to carry mails, temporary service may be employed, etc. proper service under the contract, or, having commenced service, fails to continue in the proper performance thereof, the Postmaster General may employ temporary service on the route, at a rate of pay per an-num not to exceed the amount of the bond required to accompany proposals for service on such route, as specified in the advertisement of the route, or at not exceeding pro rata of such bond, in cases where service shall have been ordered to be increased, reduced, curtailed, or changed, subsequent to the execution of contract:
The cost of such temporary service to be. charged to the contractor, and to continue until the contractor commences or resumes the proper performance of service, or until the route can be relet, as now provided by law, and service commenced under the new award of contract. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act being hereby repealed. Approved, August 3, 1882. FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 380, 381, 384. 1882.