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VOLUME III.
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO,FEIiRUARY 11, 1851.
NU31BEH 35
Santa fc lUcckln 6cr?cttc
TERMS.
WEEKLY- $2 50 a year, payable invariably in
advance i singlo copies 12 1-2 cents. Advei'lise
inents, $1 DO per square of ten lines for the first
insertion, and 50cls. lor every subsequent insertion.
P EOS PECTUS
SlT.i FE WEEKLY GAZETTE.
The Santa Fe Weekly Gazette, an English
and Spanish newspaper, is published cvcrySaturday,
n the city of Santa Fe, Territory of New Mexico.
In politics it will aim to be a sound democratic
Journal but in addition, it will be devoted to
General Literature, anil Hie current news of the
day, and no pains will be spared to fill its columns
with interesting rna'lcr. Particular attention will
be paid to such information as will be useful and
important to the pcoplo of the Terrilory, to a
development of Hie agricultural, mineral and other
resources of the country. The latest news from
the United States will always be found in its
columns, together with the most interesting items
from other narts of the world. To tlio native
population of the Territory, such a paper will be
invaluable, as it will be, in a great measure, the
only channel through which they will be able to
obtain information from other parts of the Ln'on
To the people of the Stales, this paper cannot
fail to be of deep interest, and will give them the
only correct account of this far olf and growing
Territory, they can possibly obtain and we shall
bo careful always to have the latest news for our
distant readers. New Mexico, heretofore, has
been almost an unknown land, but if our friends
in the States will subscribe for the ''Gazetti:,"
they will soon become as well acquainted with it,
as any other portion of our country. This is the
opening of a New Year, and there could not be a
better time to subscribe. Terms only $1 50 per
annum ; and advertising and job work done at Hie
lowest possible price.
Vi. V. II. DAVIS,
.Editor.
Santa Fe, N. M., Jan. 2, 1834.
IXUAI, NOTICE.
W. W. II. DAVIS,
(DISTRICT ATTORNEY OF TIlE UNITED STATES TOR
NEW MEXICO,)
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO,
ILL practice in all the courts of the Terri
tory.
Office in the same room occupied by the Secre
tary of the Terrilory.
REFERENCES.
Hon. C. dishing, Att. Gen. U. S.
Hon. Geo. M. Dallas, Philada.
II. ii. It. Hrodhead, U. S. Senate "
Hon. Simon Cameron, Pelma.
Gen. H. Patterson, Philada.
Col. Thomas J. Whipple, New York.
Haddock, Heed & Co., I'liila'da.
James, Kent & Sautee, "
Wood, Bacon & Co., "
MOCTEZUMA II.UX.
THE undersigned desires to inform her friend
and the public, that she has now! moved her
establishment 10 the building on the plaza known
as the Montezuma Hall, where she will always
kepp nn hand the best kind of liquors and beer.
Attached to the Hall is a fine stable always well
supplied with to.age. fj.TtOLINE STEIN.
Santa Fe, Jan. 7, 1834. 3m
NOTICE.
WE WOULD most respectfully inform our
friends and the public, that we have taken
the house of the late Juo Paiten in Albuquerque,
and completely fitted the same as a Hotel. Our
friends will always I'm. I us on hand No pains shall
be spared to render all who may give us a call
comfortable and well provided for, Attached to
the house are corrals and stables. At all times we
shall have an abundance of forage. Our lables and
bar will be well filled with the best the country
affords.
Terms cash.
BRXNFORD & JEANNERET.
ftnta Fe, Oct. 15, 1853,-tf
SOlTIIIilt.V RIA IE.
WINTER ARRANGEMENT.
THE southern mail via F.I Paso to San Antonio,
Texas, leaves Santa Fo on the loth of each
month, arrives at El Paso in from six to eight days,
and reaches San Antonio on the 14th of the next
month. Returning, leaves San Antonio on the loth
of the same, arrives at El Paso in from 14 to 18
days, and reaches Santa Fe on the 1 Itli of the next
month, making the trip through in from 25 to ii
days, winter and summer. The Contractor has
spared no expense in placing upon this route spring
carriages the best adapted for the convenience as
well as comfort of passengers Persons going to,
or coming from the States will find this a very
pleasant route, particularly during the winter
months, is it is entirely free from the intense cold
and heavy snows that so frequently obstruct the
eastern mail route to Independence.
RATES OF FARE.
$125 00 through from Santa Fe to San Antonio.
30 00 from Santa Fc to El Paso.
Passengers allowed 401bs baggage.
HENRY SKILLMAN.
N.B. Passengers not required to stand guard.
Santa Fe, Oct. 7, 1853 tf
THE undersigned begs leave to inform his friends
and the public generally, that he is prepared
to do all kinds of cabinet and carpenter's work on
the most reasonable terras, Shop, two doors above
the store of Jesus Loya.
Santa Fc, May 7, 1833. y JAMES H. CLIFT,
C0.MMISSI0XKU OF DEEDS,
Pennsylvania,
Connecticut,
New Hampshire.
Santa Fi. Jan. 1, 18M-IC.
OFFICE OF COM. OF SUB.
ALBUqUEKQt'E, N. II.
Jan. 14, 1854.
SEALED PROPOSALS will bo received at
this olllce till 12 o'c,oc(, M., on Wednesday,
the 13th day of March, lKftl, for furnishing flour
and salt to the United States Troops at the points
and in the quantities mentioned as follows:
Near El Paso 100,0110 pounds of flour
lio bushels ot salt.
At Fort Fillmore 100,000 pounds of fl .ur
175 bushels of salt.
Fort Thorn,Santa Barbara 80,000 pounds of flnnr
1UU bushels of salt.
" Peralla 120,000 pounds of flour
" Albuquerque 230,000 pounds of flour
tiuu ousliels ot salt.
'' Fort Union 00,000 pounds of flour
The flour and salt must he of superfine duality,
and delivered in strong cotton "drilling" double
sacks oi loo pouuus eacn.
Proposals are invited for the whole amount, for
that required at several points, or for that required
at nny particular point.
The coutiact or contracts to be made for one
year, and the faithful fulfilment thereof to be
guarantied by two rcsp nsinle securities, whose
nemes must be entered in Die proposals.
One t'ouilti of the amount required at each point
must bo delivered quarterly, commencing on the
1st day of August, 1X51,
The piincipal commissary stationed in New
Mexico, will reserve tlio right of "increasing'' or
"diminishing" the amount to be delivered at eacn
and every point, Wiy ond third," by giving six
mouths' notice to that died.
The undersigned reserves the riirlit of rejecting
all bids that he considers unreasonable.
ISAAC UOWE.V,
L'íijit. A. C. S.
Jan. 2S, lS.il-7t.13
United Sl.des District Court for the Firs! Judicial
District of t lie Territory of New Mexico, and
county of Sania Fe.
September term A. 11. koJ.
Charles II. Merritt
Stephen Oldham and
lieiijainin J. Thompson,
surviving partners of tlio late
Assumpsit in
attach.
linn of Flouinoy, Oldham k Co. I
This day came the said plaintill by his attorney,
and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court
that neither of t lie said defendants arc residents of
Ihn Territory of New Mexico, but reside beyond
the limits thereof, so that the ordinary process of
law cairn .t he e.xucntcd uiu llirin, it i tlleri'tore
ordered that lliey the sai I defendants enter their ap
pearance hereto on or before the first day of Hie
next lerm of this court to he begun and held at the
eouit house in the c.ty of Sania Fe, on the lliiid
Monday id' March A. D. IN.) I, and plead, answer
or demur to plait, till's petition, or pelgicont will be
rendered against them. It is fuilher ordered that
publication be made of this order according to
IV.
I, Lewis D. Sheets, clerk of the district court
for the first judicial district of the Territory of
iNew Mexico, certify that the foregoing is a true
copy of the order in. de in this cause.
In te-timony wlieient I hereto set
my hand and the seal of said court,
this 2dd day of January, l.'il.
L. Ü. SHEETS, Clfc.
NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given, that I, John W. Gum,
of the county of olotilgwiiciy and Slate of
.Missouri, will apply for a duplicate of bounty land
warrant No. 5'J,?U3, for 100 acres in lieu of origi
nal in my name, which lias been lost or miscarried,
so that 1 have not received it, oanl warrant is
sue'1 under the act of February lltli, IN17, and
directed to meat Santa ic, ivtw itlexiro.
JOHN W. Gljlííí.
Jan. 23 1851. 6133
ritOI'OS.lLS FOR CAItUYIXG THE
MAILS.
1 PROPOSALS for carrying the Mails of the
. United Stales, from the 1st day of July, 1854,
to the 1st day of July, 1858, in the Stale of Cali
fornia, and in the Territories of Oregon, Utah, and
New Mexico, will he received at the Contract
Ollice of flip Post Ollice Department, in the Cit)
of Washington, until 1) A. M. of the 3d April.
1854, (to be decided by the 23d of April, 1851,)
on the routes and in the times herein specified,
viii
, IN NEW MEXICO.
12000 From Santa Fe, by Albuquerque, Socorro,
Doth Ana, Fort Fillmore, Frontero (Tex
as), El Paso, San Klrtano, Magoliiinsville,
and Leona, to San Antonio, U1U miles and
back, once a month.
Leave Santa Fe on the 1st of each month
Arrive in San Antonio in 25 days.
Leave San Antonio on the 1st of each
month ;
Arrive at Santa Fe in 25 days.
Diils to carry twice a mouth are Invited ;
also bids to make the trip in 20 days.
12901 From Santa Fc, by La Canada, to Fernando
de Taos, 70 miles and back, twice a month.
Loave Santa Fe on the 1st and 15th of each
month, at 8 A. M
Arrive at Fernando de Taos by the 3d and
17th at 12 M.
Leave Fernando de Taos on the 12th and
28th of each month at 8 A. M
Arrive at Santa Fe by the 14th and 30th at
12 M. .
Bids for weekly trips are invited.
12902 From Donand, by Fort Belknap, to Gaines
ville in Texas, and back, once In two
weeks.
Bidders to state distance and schedule of
arrivals and departures.
Bids for weekly trips are invited.
FORM FOR A BID.
Where no change from nlmHtment is contemplated
by the bidder.
'. "I (or we, as the rase may be) hero write the
name or names in full of here tale the residence
or residences hereby propose to carry the mail on
route Nu. , from to , as often as
the Postmaster General's advertisement for pro
posals for the same, dated October 13, 1853, re
quires, in the time stated in the schedules con
tained in said advertisment, and by the following
mode of conveyance, to wit hercstalc bow it is
to be conveyed, for the annual sum of hete
write out the sum in words at full leiiith.
Dated. Signed.
.Form of a Guaran!,
The undersigned undertake that, if the forego,
ing bill for carrying the mail on ro ite No. be
accepteil by the Postmaster Genera., the bidder
shall, prior to the 1st day of July nit, enter into
the required obligation to perform th" service pro
posed, with good and sufficient surcti.s.
Dated Signed by two guarantors.
Form of Califícale. Í
The undersigned (postmaster, jurlf p, or n clerk
of a court of record, as the case may'be) certifies
that he is well acquainted with the rjove guaran
tors and their property, and that th are muii of
property and able to make good their guaranty.
uaicu
Wicd.
INSTRUCTIONS.
Embracing condition to be incorporate I in the con
tnictt to the extent the Dyuiliiicnt may deem
roier.
1. Seven minutes re allowed to each inter
mediate office, when not otherwise specified, for
assorting the mails.
2. On routes where the mode of conveyance
admits of it, the special agents of the Department,
also post ollice blanks, mail hags, locks and keys,
are to be conveyed without extra charge.
3. No pay will be made for trips not performed
ind for each of such omissions not i.'tisf'aciorily
explained three times the pay of the trip may be
deducted. 1'or arrivals so far behind lime as to
break connexion wilh depending mails, and nit
sufficiently excused, one-fourth of the compensa,
tion for tiie trip is sulijmt to forfeiltire. Deduc
tion may also be ordered for agrnde of perform
ance interior to that spcailied in the conlucl. For
repeated dellniteiicies of the kind herein specified
enlarged penalties, proportioned to the lialure
thereof unit the iiupoitaiice of the mail, may be
made,
4. Fur leaving behind or tnrowinir off the mails
or any portion of them for the admission of pus
siiiineis, or for being concerned in selling up or
running an express conveying commercial intelli
gence ahead of the mail, a quarter's pay may bo
deducted.
5. Fines will be imposed unless the delinquency
he promplly ami satisfactorily explained by cer
tMicales of pi.stiuasleis or the albdavlls ut other
creditable persons, for failil g to arrive in eonllaet
lime for neglecting to take the mail from, or de
liver it into a post ollice: for sutl'ciing it (either
owing to the iiusuitahleness of the place or manner
of rurrvinii it) lo be injured, destroyed, robbed or
lost ; ami fur refusing, alter demand, to con ey the
mail as freciueiilly as the contractor runs or is con
cerned in running a coach or steamboat on a
route.
ti. The Postmaster general may annul Hie con
tract for repealed failures to rim ngieeibly to
contract; for disobeying the post olhee laws, or
I lie lilsiMiiMiuns ut' the Jepail nl lor reí ..sing lo
ilisdiaiire a earner wiuu icqiiircii ny toe Llenan-
inculto do so: for asstriiiii!r the conlintt without
Ihc assent of the Poslui.ister Geneiul; for miming
an express as aforesaid; or for lian.-poiling pei-
ons or packages conveying mailable uialtcr out of
Hie m ail.
7. The Postmaster general may order an in
cicase of seivice on a ionic by allowing therefor a
pro r.ila increase on me contract pay. tie may
ilso order an increase of pay for the additional
iock or carneis u any, inc. couliactor may
however, in the case of increase ot speed, lehn-
luish the contract by giving piouipt notice to the
Uepaitineiil lllat tie preleis Uoinir sotocanviin
the order into eli'ect. The Posiinaster Geneuu
may also curtail ur dis ontinue the service at pro
rala decrease or pay, if he allow one month':
exlra coinpeiisalion on the amount dispensed with
whenever in Ins opinion the public interests do md
leqinrc Hie same, or mease tie desires to super, ede
li by a ilillerenl grade ot Ir.iiispoi tallón. He may
alsu change Ihe times of arrival and departure
(provided he does not curtail the running time)
kiiiioiii iiicreasiin: tlio pay.
8. Payments will be made for the service
Ihroiiirh drafts on poslmasteis, or otherwise afler
the expiration of each quarter say in February,
may, itiiriist and iNoveinner.
9. The distances arc given according to the
best information; but no increased pay will be
alluwed should they lie greater than adveitiscd, if
Hie poinls to be supplied be coireclly staled.
10. The Postmaster General is prohibited by
law from knowingly making a conduct lor the
transportation of the mails with any person who
shall have entered into, or proposed to enter into
any coinniuaiiou to prevent me niakinir of anv
bid for a mail contract by anv oilier person or
persons, or who shall nave ni&ue any agreement,
or shall have given or performed, or promised to
give or perforin any consideration whalever, or to
do or not to do any thing whatever, in order to in
,duce any other person or persons not to hid for a
mall contract. Particular attention is called to Ihe
28ih section of Ihe act of 1831), pmhibiling combi
nations lo prevent bidding,
11. A bid received afler lime, viz. 0 a. m. of
Ihe 3d April 1854, or without the guaranty re
quired by law, or Hut combines several routes in
one sum of compensation, cannot be considered in
competition with a regular proposal reasonable in
amount.
12. A bidder may offer, where the transporta
tion called for by the advertisement is difficult or
impracticable at certain seasons, to substitute an
inferior mode of conveyance, or lo intermit ser
vice a specified number of days, weeks or months.
He may propose to omit an inaccessible office, or
one not on Ihe stage or railroad, or at a steamboat
landing, as the case may be ; or he may oiler to
substitute an inferior mode of supply in such
case9. He may propose different times of arrival
and departure, provided no more running time is
asked, and no mail connexion prejudiced. He may
ask additional running time for tae trip during
a specified number of days in seasons of very bad
roads ; but beyond these chancres a proposal for
service differing from that called for by the ad
vertisement will not bo considered III competition
with a regular bid reasonable in amount. Where
a bid contains sny such alterations, their disadvan
tages will be estimated in comparing it with other
proposals.
13. There should be but one route bid for in a
proposal
li. The route, the service, the yearly pay, the
name and residence ot the bidder ; and those of
each member of a firm, where a company oilers,
should be distinctly staled, also the mode of con
veyance if a higher mode man norseoacK tie in
tended.
15. The hid should be sent under seal, address
ed lo the second assistant Pastmaster General, su-
ferscrined "Mall proposals in the Slate or- "
t should be eruarantied and the ulliciency of the
gnarantars certified (see formsj and should be dis
patched in time to be received Dy or before A. M.
of the 3d April 1851.
it), lue contracts are to o execweu ana re
turned to the Department by or before the 1st of
July 1834.
17. Under the act of March 3. It 13, the routes
are to be let lo the lowest bids tendel ing sufficient
guaranties, without other reference to the mode
of transportation than may be necessary for tlio
due celerity, certainty and security of such trans
portation. When the lowest hid proposes a mode
or conveyance inadequate to the due celerity, cer
tainly and secuiity of the mails, it will not'bo ao
cepted. 18. When the bid does not specify a mode of
conveyance, also when it proposes to carry 'ac
cording to the advertisement,' but without such
specification, it will be considered as a proposal
for horseback service.
19. Since the passage of the act of March 3,
1815, a new description of bid has been received.
It does not specify a mode of conveyance, but en
gages to to take the entire mail each trip with
celerity, certainty and security, usimr the terms of
the law. These bids are styled, from the manner
in which they aro designated on the books of the
Department, 'slar u,.,.' The experience of the
Department enables it to lay down the following
rules, viz.
Wheii the mnil on tlio route, is not so largo ns
to re(iiiro two-horses ooach conveyance, n star
hid, if tho lowest, will iilwuys he preferred to
the specific, bid.
When tho mails an of such size nml weight
ns to render it necessary, in rcferenco lo them
nlono, to provide two-homo coach convcynnco,
tlio specific bid, though (he highest, for coacli
service, if adjudged to bo entirely sufficient for
mo iouiu, win uo pri'icrreu to tlio star bid, in
cuso tho difl'erenee is not such ns to interfere
with the policy of the law of lslj, which looks
to a reduction in tho cost of transportation.
Exceptions, however, muy bo allowed' where
tho star bid s mndo by the owner of tlio stook
now usod on tho routo iu tlio porfurmuiico if
coach service.
Ou routes of tho highest class, where four
horse conch or stcamhout truuopoi'tiitioii is re
quired by tlio si.cnnd iiiiporfaiioo of tho mails,
and the specific bid is iidjudged sufficient for
tlio route, the preference for tho specific bid
will lo if necessary, carried to u greutes extent
of dillereuco than on the inferior coucli routed.
2il. A lnodilieution of a bid, in any of its es
sential terms, is tantamount to a new bid, and
cannot bo received, so us to intorfero with ro
gnlar competition, uftcr tho last hour set for
receiving bids.
2J. Postmasters aro to bo careful not to cer
tify the sufficiency of guarantors or sureties
without knowing that they are persons of suffi
cient responsibility; ur.tlnll bidders, guarantors
and sureties nro distinctly notified that on nfai
lure to enter into or to perforin tho contracts
for tho service proposed for in tho accepted
bids, their legal Jiubilitics will bo onforced u
gainst them.
22. Tho contractors will be substantially in
the lorms heretofore used in this Dennrtment.
except in iliu respects particularly mentioned
in theso instructions; ami On stenmlinilt ronfea
tlio contractors will bo required to deliver tho
moils into the post offices nt tho ends of tho
routes and into till tho inmediato post ofiicos.
23. Present contractors nnd persons known
at the Department must, equally without others,
procure gunroiitors and certificates of their su
fficiency ubstuntiullv in tlio forms above prss
erihed. Tho certificates of sufficiency must bo
signed hy a post muster, or a judge, or clerk of
i oourt cf record.
JAMF.S CAMPBELL,
i'os Master (Jcncral.
Post Ornen Dep.vrthíxt, Octodeb 13, 1853.
octlj wt2ir
lSDEPKNUUNCE, MISSOURI.
BV
II . W. TODD.
I bnvc removed from the "Noland House," lo
the "Nebraska House," in Independence, Missouri.
The Nebraska House is a large new building, and
has recently been much improved by alterations
and additions. Having taken this house for n term
of years, 1 intend to make every efl'ort to promolo
the convenience nnd comfort of travellers. The
patronage of my friends and the travelling public
is rcspoctfully solicited.
B. W. TODD.
January 1st 1853 ly.
lurom Hie Aew York Herald.
The Vera Cruz and Mexico Railroad.
Ilia Exculluney tlio President of the
Republic Las issued tho following de
cree:
Antonio Lopez do Stinta Anna, bene-
mérito, general of division, grand cross
of the royal nnd distinguished order of
Carlos III. oí Spain, nud president of
tho Mexican republic, to all to whom
theso presents como, know all men that,
according to tho powers conferred upon
him by tho nation, ho decrees as fol
lows :
Article 1. To Don Juan Laurie Rich
ards is conceded tho exclusivo right to
construct and carry out a railroad from
Vera Cruz to Mexico, passing by Pu
ebla.
Art. 2. Tho routo from Vera Cruz to
Puebla shall bo tlirottirh lands recoc
nized as most convenient, and tho routo
from Puebla to Mexico will bo by tho
plains of Apan.
Art. 3. Tho grounds needed fur tho
construction of tho road, for tho officers'
dwellings, or workshops wanted for the
building and conduct of the said road,
shall be furnished the directors freo of all
cost, and in perpetual possession, see
ing the great advantages which must re
sult to the present owners of such lands
becauso of their neighboi hooj to the rail
way. Art. 4. The materials for tho road,
whether natural or foreign productions,
all goods, etc., which may bo necessary
for the use and service of the agents, em
ployees, ajid laborers, as well asallkimls
of carriages, cars and other vehicles for
transport, all machines, tools, houses,
offices, dwellings, stations, coal, animals
and their harness necessary, shall bo freo
of all duty, taxation, contribution or im
post now existing, or hereafter to exist,
of whatever class or denomination.
Art. 5. The government will assure
to tlio company its propcities and its
foreign employees tho protection which
existing treaties guarantee to such for
eigners, as well for their persons as for
their property atnl interests.
Art. C. All Mexican employees, op
eratives, and laborers, shall bo exempt
from military service during tho time of
their engagement with tho suid compa
ny. Art, 1. Tlio Señor Juan Richards cn.
gages to form and couxtitttto tho said
company within eight months from tho
granting of this privilege, and will ofli
cialy advise tho Mexican pk-niputuntiury
in London of the formation and installa
tion of said company, its statutes and its
regulations, for publication in tho Mex
ican republic.
Art. 8. The company's headquarters
will bo in London, and 'uio-fourth of tho
shares shall be reserved, during one year
for tho inhabitants of tho Mexican re
public who may desire to purchase, and
a subscription book for this purpose shall
bo opened in Mexico.
Art. 9. So soon as the company shall
bo formed, numerous t nuriueers shull
proceed to survey tho lands which shall
bo found most favorable to tho course
which tho railway shall pursue, and
when tho survey elmll havo been mado
wholly or in part, tho plans shall bo sub
mitted to tho supremo government, and
permission obtained, the work shall bo
begun. In caso of any unforseen obsta
do which shall render tho construction of
a railway impossible, at ona or more
points, thecompany shall construct a car
riage road to communicate with tho sop
crated points of tho railway, and this cir
cumstance shall bo considered as of ab
solute necessity, and shall in noway fur
nish a motive for the withdrawal of this
grant.
Art. 10. As soon as tho official notice
of tho formation of this compuny is re
ceived in Mexico, skillful persons shall
bo chosen, ono by tho government nnd
ono by the company, to valuo that part of
the road which is now built, its ca.rs,
houses, ofiices, utensils, and whatever
elso belongs to it. Should th so persons
disagree, they shall chose a third, whoso
decision shall bo definitivo and obligato
ry upon all contracting parties. At tho
conclusion of this valuation, tho road, its
carriages, offices, and appurtenances shall
bo given to the company in perpetual pos
session, at a rent of six per cent, upon tho
valuation of the property.
Art. 11. Peforo the railway is finished
and opened to tho public, tho company
shall advise with tho supremo govern
ment as to the rate of charges for passen
gers, freight and baggage.
Art. 12. It is further agreed and cov
enanted that this grant shall extend itself,
on tho samo conditions, to any branch or
branches which thecompany may secOtto
ostablish, subject to tho approbation of
tho supreme government.
Art. 13.
Once finished, tho road from
Vera Cruz to Mexico, and tho branches
named in tho last article, together with
all their appurtenances, shall be consid
ered a3 tho company's property in per
pciuun.
Art. 14. Tho transport of tho mails by
tho railway, or its branchos, shall bo the
subject of a separate contract or contracts
when the proper time arrives.
Art, 15. In return for these concesa-