The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-01

ing the roads clear after heavy snow.
falls. and using their influence to main.
tain the condition of the roads in All
weathers up to the standard required by
the Department
METHOD OF PROCEDURE.
Upon receipt of petition, favorably
endorsed by a Representative in Con-
gress, Inc Department refers the papers
to the Special Agent In charge of the
Division which includes the State in
which the petition originates. He as
signs Special Agent to visit the Ioca-
ton Indicated. to map out a route or
routes, and to select rural carriers. to be
appointed by the Department. In all
such cases the advice of the Representa-
tive in Congress is sought, both as re-
CARDS the carrier or carriers to be ap-
pointed and other postal service to be
discontinued on the establishment of
Rural Free Delivery.
The Special Agent is not authorized to
name time when rural free delivery
will be established on the route recon-
mended Dy him. That rests with the
Department in Washington.
CARRIERS.
Rural carriers give bond In the sum of
$500, with two sureties Each bond re-
quires a 50-cent revenue stamp to be az
fixed thereto.
Carriers are paid by warrants, directly
issued by the Treasury Department upon
certlhcates forwarded by the postmaster
Their rate of pay is fixed by the Depart
ment, and includes horse hire. but not
necessary tolls or ferriage, for which a
separate account must be rendered The
rate OF pay as at present es-
tabhshed Is 800 per annum for a full
route OF approximately twenty-five miles
Or slOo per annum for each five miles
travelled on shorter routes.
one or more substitute carriers should
Dc provided in connection with each SER
5ice established, who must give bond in
he same sum as the regular carrier and
who alone are permitted to carry the
nails in the absence or disability of the
carrier.
Accounts for service must be rendered
N the name of the regular carrier and
he must pay his substitute for service
'endered by him at the same rate he
himself receives.
All rural carriers are under the control
If the Postmaster from whose office the
service is established, and it is his duty
o report any derelictions upon their part
md to require them to strictly follow
he routes laid out for them.
The orders of the Postmaster General
lirect that rural carriers shall deliver
nail in person or by bonded substitute
very gay OF the year, Sundays alone
excepted
Rural carriers are required to take
With them on their trips for the accom-
notation Of their patrons a sufficient
upply of stamps, stamped envelopes and
postal cards. Postmasters may, if they
moose give credit to the rural carrier
or stamp supplies to the extent of five
oliars &5.0O to be accounted for each
ay, and the carriers bond being respon-
IDLE therefor. If they find an unstamp-
d letter in a collection box and the
equisite amount of money also deposited
hey are instructed to affix the necessary
lamp. They are empowered to register
etters or packages and to deliver the
anne, giving and taking receipts on forms
rovided. They are also authorized to
ccept money for money orders, giving
heir receipts therefor, and, if the pat
ons of the delivery desire to make the
arriers their agents for this purpose the
arriers may incIose the orders, when
'sued, in addressed envelopes confided
0 their charge and mail them without
eturning the orders to the senders
A. w. MACHEN,
Superintendent Free Delivery
Approved January T. 1901.
W. NJ. JOHNSON,
frst Assistant Postmaster General