Te : Pe eee ' ALL MESSAGES TAKEN vgs COMPANY ARE SUBJECT TOgMME FOLLOWING TERMS: To guard against mistakes or delays, the sender of a message should order it repeated, that {s, telegraphed back to the originating office for comparison. For this, one-half the message rate is charged in addition. Uniess otherwise indicated on its face, this is an unrepeated message and paid for as such, in consideration whereof it is agreed between the sender of the message and this Company as follows: % | i. The Company shall not be liable for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery, or for non-ficlivery, of any message received for transmission at the unrepeated-message rate 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= message 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. 2. In any event the Company shall not be lable for damages for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery, or for the non-Gelivery, of any message, whether caused by unrepeated the negligence of its servants or otherwise, beyond the actual loss, not exceedingin any event the sum of five thousand dollars, at which amount the sender of each message represents that the 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 is paid or agreed to be paid, and an additional charge equal to one-tenth of one per cent of the amount 3. _,4&. by which such valuation shall exceed five thousand dollars. pnmel — or an incoming covers its delivery within cable or radio message 1 1. Om 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, Except as otherwise indicated in connection with the ting of individual places in the filed tariffs of the Company, the amount paid for the transmission of a domestic telegram following limits: In cities or towns of 5,000 or more inhabitants where the Company has an office oF, 2 Pr 4 ie) Bs ER cs Je 5B which, as shown by the filed tariffs of the Company, is not operated through the agen y of a railroad company, within two miles of any open main or branch office of the Company; in cities of 5,000 or more inhabitants where, as shown by the filed tarifis of th Company, the telegraph service is performed through the agency of a railroad company. within one mile of orthetowns telegraph office; & 4 } in cities or towns of less than 5,000 inhabitants in which an office of the Company is located, within one-half mile of the telegraph office. Beyond ys is ~~ Le the limits above specified the Company does not undertake to make delivery, but will endeavorto arrange for delivery as the agent of the sender, with the understanding that the sender authorizes the collection of any additional charge from the addressee and agrees to pay such additional chargeif it is not collected from the addressee. There will be no additional charge for deliveries made by telephone within the corporate limits of any city or town in which an office of the Company is located. 3 5. N 0 responsibility attaches to this Company. concerning messages until the same the Company’s messengers, he acts for that purpose as the agent of the sender. | ; are accented at one of its transmitting offices; and if a message is sent to such office by one of _. 6 The Company wil] not be liable for damages or statutory penalties in the case of any message except an intrastate message in Texas where the claim not presented in writing to 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 willis not be liable for damages or statutory penalties where the claim is not presented in writing to the Company within ninety-five days after the cause of action, if any, shall have accrued; provided, however, that neither of these conditions shall apply to claims for damages or overcharges within the purview of Section 415 of the Communications Act of 1934. ¢7. It is agreed that in any action by the Company subject to rebuttal by competent evidence. to recover the tolls for any message or messages the prompt and correct transmission and delivery thereof shall be presumed, é : 2 ; ; 8. 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. | | 9. No employee of the Company is authorized to vary the foregoing. 10-42 . CLASSES OF SERVICE FULL RATE TELEGRAMS ) | | FULL RATE FULL f The A full rate expedited service. DAY LETTERS : A deferred service at lower than the full rate . CODE (CDE) BIR Bee fast counted SERIALS ST NIGHT in sections during the same C22 day. service ietters service full rates. May be written in | any language language per word. of words Minimum formed charge without condition of 5 words applies. or LETTERS 4 : © 1. eta morning at rates HIGHT messages, subject LETTERS to being deferred in favor of full rate (NLT) NIGH 2 LE rTERS (NLT) Overnight plain-language messages. = x. ES can be restriction, (LC) 3 messages, bLIC Snags Accepted up to 2 A.M. for delivery not earlier than the following ' substantially lower than the full rate telegram or day letter rates. that or in cipher. consistingSe wve at 5 characters Plain at RS message oS DEFERREDS . Messages fast in Roman Aw A | CABLES standard expressed : _ CABLE SERVICES | ae DOMESTIC SERVICES POTEET eo ee OF en | Minimum charge of 25 words applies. and CDE #