Chapter 397. to authorize the Postmaster-General to cancel mail contract on route number thirty thousand one hundred, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 397.— An Act to authorize the Postmaster-General to cancel mail contract on route number thirty thousand one hundred, and for other purposes.June 18, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Postal service.Mail contract on route 30100, Louisiana, may be canceled. That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized to terminate the mail contract on route number thirty thousand one hundred, with Charles P.
Truslow, and to place the mails at legal rates for transportation, and cause the same to be carried on and by the New Orleans and Gulf Railroad from New Orleans to Bohemia, supplying all intermediate offices along said route, and to advertise and contract with the lowest responsible bidder for carrying the mails over the balance of said route from Bohemia to Port Eads, with weekly side supply to Pilot Town for and during the unexpired time of said Truslow’s contract: *Provided*, That said Postmaster-General shall not terminate said*Proviso*.New contract for part of route.
Truslow’s contract, nor place the mails on said railroad for transportation, nor contract for its carriage from Bohemia to Port Eads, with supply to Pilot Town, unless he first receives a bid for the latter service, and has let the contract for the performance thereof at a price which, when added to the cost of carrying the mail by railroad from New Orleans to Bohemia and supplying the intermediate offices, does not exceed the amount now paid to said Truslow for the same service under his contract.
Approved, June 18, 1888.