Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-09-13

loiloWinS uiftcll0NS from the fourth
assistant postmaster general with ref
erence to the rural delivery reguIa-
lions. and which Is printed for the
information aud guidance Of those
Who receive their mail along rural
routes.
To Postmastcrs: For public CON
Ncniencc and % facilitate a more ae-
cnrate handling of mail by rural free
delivery carriers, it has been decided
that each rural mail box in use on a
rural route, which under the realla=
tons of the Department. is entitled TO
service. shall be designated by mum
hereinafter set forth aud the delivery
hv rural carriers of ordinary mail mat
ter of all classes addressed to such
boxes by number alone is authorized
so long as improper and unlawful bus
mess is not conducted thereby.
First-Postmastcrs at the respec-
tive distributing Offices are hereby di
rected to instruct the carriers of all
rural free delivery routes which have
teen operated sixty days or more, to
review the rural mail boxes in use on
their routes in the interval between
the receipt of this order and Septem
Der 80, 1905, and report which of them
conform to the regulations and are
thus entitled to designative numbers.
Second-The following, when found
to be safe. weather proof and fit recep-
bers:
(a) Boxes "approved' under order
+. No. 739.
(b) Non-approved boxes erected
prior to October /. 1902.
Third-No weather proof OF
otherwise unfit receptacles for MAI
shall be numbered All such must be
replaced with regulation approved
/ boxes by the owners, or no number;
will be assigned.
No rural mail box erected within
the limits of an Incorporated city o.
town or within One-half nile OF post
office at an unincOrporated town o.
Village shall be numbered unless sucl
box was erected prior to October 3
1908. or is being served by specific or
de&pf the department.
vice must not be Withdrawn ,','
hoJ.Eger, from any box not being
served. until such withdrawal Is ex
pressly ordered by this office.
Fourth-The numbers sassigned tt
boxes on each route will commence
with "No. H." which will pertain to
the first regulation box reached by
the carrier after leaving the starting
point of his route. travelling In accord
ance with official description; box al
ter box thereafter to be counted and
given the proper number in regular Sc
ouence in order of service from No.
to and including all those boxes enti
tied to service located on the route.
Fifth-Each number thus arrived al
should be recorded in the carrier ros
ter book opposite the name of the
owner of the box so designated, and
also opposite the name OF every other
person entitled to receive mail in said
tox. Numbers thus applied to boxes
and registered must be promptly re
rorted to and recorded by the post
master of the distributing Office tc
which they belong and must not be
changed thereafter except by specific
authority of such postmaster,
Sixth-As soon as possible afsel
completing the assignment of box
numbers on a route the postmastel
will furnish each box owner with the
official number of his box, and reques
,ilat this number be at once legiLl!
and durably inscribed in a conspicu
Gus place on the outside of the box
Seventh-Boxes served regularly b.
more than one route must. in case
where such double service is duly AT
thorized, be given numbers in regula
consecutive order on each route, b.
the method prescribed in. the prece(
ing paragraphs for numbering boxe
served by one carrier,
Eighth-New boxes erected subs
:, cuent to the original numbering b.
, tween those already in position on
route and consecutively numbere
will be designated by applying ther
, tn in the regular order the next CO..
secutive numbers shown by the recor