ALL MESSAGES TAKEN BY THIS COMPANY ARE SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING TERMS:

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To guard against
in addition, Unless otherwise indicated on its face; this is an unrepeated
1, The company shall not be liable for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery, or for
hundred dollars; nor for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery, or for delivery

ompsrison: For this; one-half the unrepeated mossage rate is charged
for ween the sender of the niessace and this company as follows:
vy of any jived for transmission at the unrepeated-meseage rate beyond the sum of five
d for t ission at the repeated-message rate beyond the sum of five thousand dollars, unless

. any
@pecially valued; nor in any case for delays arising from unavoidable interruption in the working of its lines; nor for errors in cipher or obscure messages. c
2. In any event the company shall not be liable for damages, or mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery, or for the non-delivery, of any message, whether caused by the negligence of its servantsor
otherwise, beyond the sum of five thousand dollars, at which amount each message is deemed to be valued, unless a greater value is stated in writing by the sender thereof at the time the message is tendered for trana-
mission, and unless the repeated-message rate is paid or agreed to be paid, and an additional charge equal to one-tenth of one percent of the amount by which such valuation shall exceed five thousand dollars.
3. The company is hereby made the agent of the sender, without liability, to forward this message over the lines of any other company when necessary to reach its destination.

 

4. D i and i eable
towns. Beyond these limits the company does not undertake to make delivery, but will, without liability,
sonable price.

will be delivered free within one-half mile of

the company’s office in towns of 5,000 population or less, and within one mile of such office in other cities or
at the sender’s request, as his agent and at his expense, endeavor to contract for him for such delivery at a rea-

No responsibility attaches to this company concerning messages until the same are accepted at one of its transmitting offices; and if a message is sent to such office by one of the company’s messengers, he

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scts for that purpose as the agent of the sender.

The company will not be liable for damages or statutory penalties ta any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the company for transmission.

It is agreed that in any action by the company to recover the tolls for any message or messages

the prompt and correct transmission and delivery thereof shall be presumed, subject to rebuttal by competent

Special terms governing the transmission of messages according to their classes, as enumerated below; shall apply to messages in each of such respective classes in addition to all the foregoing terms,

No employ

 

of the P is authorised to vary the foregoing.

THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY
INCORPORATED
R. B. WHITE, PRESIDENT

CLASSES OF SERVICE

TELEGRAMS
A full-rate expedited services

NIGHT MESSAGES

Accepted up to 2:00 a.m. at reduced rates to be sent during the night and delivered not earlier than the
morning of the ensuing business day. >

Night Messages may at the option of the Telegraph Company be mailed at destination to the addressecs,
and the Company shall be deemed to have discharged its obligation in such cases with respect to deiivery
by mailing such night messages at destination, postage prepaid.

DAY LETTERS

A deferred day service at rates lower than the standard telegram rates as follows: One and one-half times
the standard night letter rate for the transmission of 50 words or less and one-fifth of the initial rates for
each additional 10 words or less.

SPECIAL TERMS APPLYING TO DAY LETTERS:

In further consideration of the reduced rate for this special Day Letter service, the following special terms
fn addition to those enumerated above are hereby agreed to:

4. Day Letters may be forwarded by the Telegraph Company as a deferred service and the transmission
and delivery of such Day Letters, is, in all respects, subordinate to the priority of transmission and delivery
of regular telegrams.

B._ This Day Letter is received subject to the express und: ding and t that the Company
does not undertake that a Day Letter shall be delivered on the day of its date absolutely, and at all events;
but that the Company’s obligation in this respect is subject to the condition that there shall remain ient
time for the transmission and delivery of such Day Letter on the day of its date during regular office hours,
subject to the priority of the transmission of regular telegrams under the conditions named above.

NIGHT LETTERS

Accepted up to 2:00 a.m. for delivery on the morning of the ensuing business day, at rates still lower than
etandard night message rates, asfollows: The standard telegram rate for 10 words shall be charged for the

transmission of 50 words or less, and one-fifth of such standard telegram rate for 10 words shall be charged
for each additional 10 words or less.

SPECIAL TERMS APPLYING TO NIGHT LETTERS:

In further consideration of the reduced rates for this special Night Letter service, the following special
terms in addition to those enumerated above are hereby agreed to:
Night Letters may at the option of the Telegraph Company be mailed at destination to the addressees,
and the Company shall be deemed to have discharged its obligation in such cases with respect to delivery
by mailing such Night Letters at destination, postage prepaid.

FULL RATE CABLES

An expedited service throughout. Code language permitted.

DEFERRED HALF-RATE CABLES

Half-rate messages are subject to being deferred in favor of full rate messages for not exceoding 34
hours. Must be in plain language,

CABLE NIGHT LETTERS

An overnight service for plain language communications, at one-third the full rate, or less. Minimuz
of 25 words charged for. Subject to delivery at the convenience of the Company within 24 hours.

SHIP RADIOGRAMS
a ree to and from ships at cea, in all parte of the world. Plain language or code language may
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