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 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ras. 47, 48, 49. 1870. 375 mst day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy; and whereas, in view of P*‘°¤¤¤bl°· the importance of the service to be performed and the damage to the public interests which would result from failure to put said service in operation at the proper time, it is desirable to fix an earlier period than the iirst of July for the execution of the contracts, and to adopt such other precautions as may seem necessary to guard against the failure of bidders or contractors to fulfil their obligations : Therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster-General be, and Postmaster. he is hereby, authorized, in any case in which he may deem it necessary, G°P°*‘¤l mW W to require accepted bidders under the advertisement of September thirti- gf; eth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, inviting proposals for carrying the cute contracts at mails of the United States in the States and Territories above mentioned, g'°_{"l‘°" *““°· to execute contracts and return them to the department at an earlier pe- ’ riod than the first day of July, and, at the discretion of the Postmaster- General, as early as the first day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy. Sec. 2` And be it further resolved, That in any ease arising under the may summc. aforementioned advertisement in which the Postmaster—General shall have W l’ldd°'¤ good reason to believe that any bid for carrying the mail on any route wdggcgagif has not been made in good faith, he shall be authorized to summon the should not be set bidder or bidders to appear before him and show cause why such bid °‘°‘d°·°r·&°‘ should not be set aside, or immediately executed by entering into contract with sufficient sureties ; and the failure of the bidder or bidders to appear Flame to aP_ in response to such a summons and satisfy the Postmaster-General that pear,oi·,_&c; to said bid has been made in good faith, and that the guarantors thereof are ¤:;;H;’,g1{°;:’tt. duly responsible, or to enter into such contract, shall be deemed to be bid ,,ido_ mg sufficient cause for setting such bid aside and entering into contract with the lowest of the bidders who will do so for the performance of the service. N _ d And-all the bidders shall be seasonably notified that such summons has dm?u°° t° bl ` been issued and that they may be required to enter into such contract. Approved, May 5, 1870. . . Resolatio rovide or un: a Estimates o ost o removin [N0 48] AObstruction’; the Baybu Ilgechezn tllg State of Louiiiaga. f g Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives ey" the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he sim-oy md is hereby, instructed to cause a survey and estimates of cost of removing ¢¤*?_f·¤ W be obstructions from and improving the navigation of the Bayou Teche, in ;§,,§,;,’Q:'h.uc_ the State of Louisiana: Provided, That the expense of said survey and tionst‘romBayo¤. estimate shall not exceed the sum of Eve hundred dollars. And the Tgygm same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not other- Appmpdnum wise appropriated. Approved, May 5, 1870. . . olution orthe Trans ero an unexpended Balancso Appmprmtionto, 5 g _ [NO 49 1 A Res t/{Book Fund oC' tb; Library of Congress. f  Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of two thousand five Tmmm M hundred dollars, appropriated by acts approved July thirty, eighteen appropriation Lg hundred and sixty-eight, and March three, eighteen hundred and sixty- p:;;??;: gg nine, " for the expenses of exchanging public documents for the publi-pf mnmuéw cations of foreign governments," the same being an unexpended balance 1868, cb. ms. not required for that purpose, be, and the same is hereby, transferred to Y§éb’“§1l’i:£· the fund for the purchase of books for the library of Congress. voi, gv, P, gag, Approved, May 5, 1870. ,;