The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-11-11
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, November II, 1908.
Mail Routes.

Proposals will b. received at the
Office of the Second Assistant Post
master General, postofice depart
ment,. until S p. NJ ct December l,
1908, for carrying the mails of the
United States on the routes and by
the schedules of departures and ar
rivals specified in the State of South
Csrolip, from July l, 1904, to June
80, 1908. Decisions announced on
or before February l, 1904. Con-
tracts to be executed aud fled in the
department within sixty days after
date of acceptance of bids.
Nc bid submitted will beconsidered
unless the bidder shall agree in his
bid that in the event of the service
being awarded to him he will give
his personal supervision to the per-
Torrance of the same, and will re-
side on or contiguous to the route.
All persons r cautioned not to
allow their names to be used as bid
ders unless they intend to personally
perform or supervise the service.
In addition to carrying the mails
to the various post-omces on the star
routes the carrier on each route will
also be required to deliver mail into
all boxes and hang small bags or
saschels containing mail on cranes or
posts that may be erected along the
route, and to collect mail from said.
boxes, satchels, etc.
Any person living on or near any
star route who desires his mail de-
posted at a given point on the line
of the route by the carrier may pro-
vide and erect q suitable box or crane
on the roadside, and such person
shall file with the postmaster at the
p~ostofice to which his mail is ad-
dressed, a request in writing, for the
delivery Of his mail to the carrier on
the route for deposit at the designas-
ed point, at the risk of the addressee.
The small bag OF satchel above men
toned, as well as the box or crane,
must be provided by the person for
whose use it is intended.
It shall be the duty of the post
master at every such p~ostofice, upon
written order from any person liv-
ing on or near the star route, to de-
liver to the proper mail carrier. for
that route any mail matter, with in
as to the proper mail box
crane at which said mail matter
shall be deposited; but registered
mail shall not be so delivered unless
expressly requested by the addressee
in his written order. No mail mat
ter. so delivered to a carrier shall be
carried past another p~ostof6ce on the
route before being deposited into q
mail box or hung on q crane,or post:
The mail carriers must be reliable
and trustworthy persons, of good
and of sufficient intelligence
to properly handle and deposit the
mail along the routes.
The department does not prescribe
any particular designo Of box or satchel
to be used for This service, but the
person providing either should see
that it is of such character as to
afford ample protection to his mail.
The box or crane should be so located
on the roadside that the carrier can
deposit the mail without leaving his
vehicle or horse, and yet not where
t will obstruct public travel.
Full information relative to sched-
ules, distance, and number of trips
of each route, will be found in book
of advertisement on file at each post
Office.
The following r the routes toilet
in Lexington county:
No. 2O3O5.-spring Hill, by the
Sinclair road, to White Rock, $50
miles and back, 3 times a week.
Bond $500.
No. 2~0506.-Wessinger, by Counts
Vile and Selwood, to Irmo, ll.50