Telegram from William McKinley to E. A. Hitchcock

FORM 15. 6 CAB 10 POSTAL TELECRAPH-CABLE COMPANY. This Company transmits and delivers the within message subject to the following BEHWETT. TERMS AND CONDITIONS. TRADE To 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 regular rate is charged in addition. It is agreed between the sender of the message written on the face hereof and the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company, said Company shall not be Hable for or delays in the transmission or delivery, or for non-delivery, of any UNREPEATED assage, beyond the amount received for sending the same nor for mistakes or delays in the transmission or or for non-delivery, of any REPEATED message beyond fifty times the sum received for sending the same, unless specially insures nor in any case for delays arising from unavoidable interruption in the working of its lines, or Mor errors in copher or obseure messages. And this Company is hereby made the agent af the sender, withoutMlability to forward any message over the lines of any other Company when necessary to reach its destination the Correctness in the transmission of mossages to any point on the lines of the Company can be INSURED by 100 contract in writing, agreed amound of risk, and payment of premium thereon, at the following rates, in addition to the usux harge for repeated messages, viz: one per cent. for any distance not exceeding 1,000 miles, and two per cent. forgany greatu distane esponsibility regarding mossages astaches to this Company until the same are presented and accepted at one of its transmitting apd if a n ressage is sent to such office by one of this Company's messengers, he nets fo that purpose as the of the Sender. will benelivered sevithing the established freé delivery limits of the terminal office. For delivery at a grodter distance be made to cover the cost of such delivery. This Company wall not be tamages or statutory penalties in any case where the claim is not pre- sentedoin within sixty mays message is filed with the company for transmission. This is an UNPEPMATED Measage and is delivered by request of the sender under the conditions named above. Errors cannbe guarded against anly by Deating a message back to the sending station for comparison. No employee of this Company is aut wrized to vary the foregoing. WILLIAM R BAKER, HHN O. STEVENS, ALBERT B, CHANDLER, V. P. and can'l Marager Secretary, President.