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The Postal Telegraph Bill

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
February
Year
1872
Copyright
Public Domain
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The followiug is an abatraat of tho bill to conneet the telegraph with tho postal eervicc : Scction 1 establishos postal tolcgruph offices at all postoffices ou telograph linet and at all othcr postoffic.es whuro tho ffross reeeipts for postage are $ö(H) a yeai", it witliin ten miles oi' tolegraph linos. Section '2 fbfea ratcs uniform tor equal dibtunces - twenty-fivo eouts bctween ofliecs uoi over 2."j(j miles apart ; ñfty cents '. k-i ween offices over -0 milüs ipart and umler ü()0 miles apart : night ratestwenty-fivi: cents for 1,060 miles, rutes to be refundcd for delaysor mistkes in transmis- sion. Section 3 provides for pre-payinent by stamps ttad for the destvnetion ot' all telegraras within one month. Sietiün l lixes the press rates for eaeh one hundred wonls ot special dispatobea at fii'ty cents by night and sevcuty-tiye cents byday. it also fixes the rate for uvss aiwooifttUma and for private linasfor nowspapers. Seotion (i defines tho dnties o)j tliu Fouitli Assistant l'ostmaster-Genoral over the telegrap-h lines. Section i authoiizes tho PostmagterGeneral to contract, fur tlie trunsiiiission of telegrama at the above rates with partii -s wlio wili furmsh and aparate the nocessary lincs of telegraph. Soction 8 contains a provisión agaiust tamporing with telegrama, and mates tülegrams as privileged commiinïcations as private letters. fSection 9 anthorizes tho PostraastorGeneral to reduco t'ae rates thórein pre cribad. Sootion 10 incorporatos a postal telejraph compariy in tbo performance of the postal tolograph sorvice on bohalf of the Jt'ostmaster-Gi neral. üons U and 12 authorizea the comra:iy to buy existing tines, and obligoa i :o purchaso all suoh linea, if requúed by ;lio owners thereof, at anappointed valu,'. .tnxesthe capital stook at an amon&t' lot exceeding the last oost of its Unes, S(ction 13 authorizos the oompany to ipon uJKucs whcrcvor the wants of busilesa may roquiro. Bection 11 authorizes Congrega ö) mvcha#e linea atan y time at an appraigtd valuc. Suctiiin l.i resorvea (o Congross the right to altor or amtn 1 tho act.

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Old News
Michigan Argus