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    "ocrText": "ALL MESSAGES TAKEN BY THIS COMPANY ARE SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING TERMS:\nTo guard against mistakes or delays, the sender of a message should order it repeated, that is, telegraphed back to the originating office for comparison. For this, one-half the\nunrepeated message rate is charged in addition. Unless otherwise indicated on its face, this is an unrepeated message and paid for as such, in consideration whereof it is agreed between\nthe sender of the message and this Company as follows:\n1. The Company shall not be liable for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery. or for non-delivery, of any message received for transmission at the unrepeated-message\nrate beyond the sum of five hundred dollars; nor for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery, or for non-delivery of any message received for transmission at the repeated-\nmessage rate beyond the sum of five thousand dollars, unless specially valued; nor in any case for delays arising from unavoidable interruption in the working of its lines.\n2. In any event the Company shall not be liable for damages for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery, or for the non-delivery, of any message, whether caused by\nthe negligence of its servants or otherwise, beyond the actual loss, not exceeding in any event the sum of five thousand dollars, at which amount the sender of each message represents that\nthe message is valued, unless a greater value is stated in writing by the sender thereof at the time the message is tendered for transmission, and unless the repeated-message rate\nis\npaid\nor\nagreed to be paid, and an additional charge equal to one-tenth of one per cent of the amount by which such valuation shall exceed five thousand dollars.\n3.\nThe 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.\n4. Except as otherwise indicated in connection with the listing of individual places in the filed tariffs of the Company, the amount paid for the transmission of a domestic telegram\nor'an incoming cable or radio message covers its delivery within the following limits: In cities or towns of 5,000 or more inhabitants where the Company has an office which, as shown by the\nfiled tariffs of the Company, is not operated through the ageney of a railroad company, within two miles of any open main or branch office of the Company in cities or towns of 5,000 or\nmore\ninhabitants\nwhere,\nas\nshown\nby\nthe\nfiled\ntariffs\nof\nthe\nCompany,\nthe\ntelegraph\nservice\nis\nperformed\nthrough\nthe\nagency\nof\na\nrailroad\ncompany,\nwithin\none\nmile\nof\nthe\ntelegraph\noffice;\nin\ncities\nor\ntowns\nof\nless\nthan\n5,000\ninhabitants\nin\nwhich\nan\noffice\nof\nthe\nCompany\nis\nlocated,\nwithin\none-half\nmile\nof\nthe\ntelegraph\noffice.\nBeyond\nthe\nlimits\nabove\nspecified\nthe\nCompany\ndoes\nnot\nundertake\nto\nmake delivery, but will endeavor to arrange for delivery as the agent of the sender, with the understanding that the sender authorizes the collection of any additional\ncharge from the addressee and agrees to pay such additional charge if it is not collected from the addressee. There will be no additional charge for deliveries made by telephone within\nthe corporate limits of any city or town in which an office of the Company is located.\n5. 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\nthe Company s messengers, he acts for that purpose as the agent of the sender.\n6.\nThe Company will not be liable for damages or statutory penalties in the case of any message except an intrastate message in Texas where the claim is not presented in writing\nto the Company within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission, and in the case of an intrastate message in Texas the Company will not beliable for damages\nor statutory penalties where the claim is not presented in writing to the Company within ninety-five days after the eause of action, if any shall aveaccrued;\nprovided,\nhowever,\nthat\nneither\nof these conditions shall apply to claims for damages or overcharges within the purview of Section 415 of the Communications Act of 1934.\n7. 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,\nsubject to rebuttal by competent evidence.\n8. 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\nto all the foregoing terms.\n9. No employee of the Company is authorized to vary the foregoing.\n10-42\nCLASSES OF SERVICE\nCABLE SERVICES\nDOMESTIC SERVICES\nFULL RATE CABLES\nFULL RATE TELEGRAMS\nThe standard fast service at full rates. May be written in any language that can be\nA full rate expedited service.\nexpressed in Roman letters or in cipher.\nDAY LETTERS\nCODE (CDE)\nA deferred service at lower than the full rate\nA fast message service consisting of words formed without condition or restriction,\ncounted at 5 characters per word. Minimum charge of 5 words applies.\nSERIALS\nDEFERREDS (LC)\nMessages sent in sections during the same day.\nPlain language messages, subject to being deferred in favor of full rate and CDE\nmessages.\nNIGHT LETTERS\nAccepted up to 2 A.M. for delivery not earlier than the following morning at rates\nNIGHT LETTERS (NLT)\nsubstantially lower than the full rate telegram or day letter rates,\nOvernight plain-language messages. Minimum charge of 25 words applies.\n[2 of 2 Back]"
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