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38 [[strikthrough]]5990[[/strikethrough]]
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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
MAY 17 1865
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The American Telegraph Company.
PRINTING ASND MORSE LINES.
DIRECT TO ALL STATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AND BRITISH PROVINCES.
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OFFICES.-432 Pennsylvania Av., U.S. CAPITOL, and Willard's, The Metropolitan and National Hotels, Washington, D.C.
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Terms and Conditions on which this and all Messages are received by this Company. 

In order to guard against and correct as much as possible some of the errors arising from atmospheric and other causes appertaining to telegraphy, every important message should be REPEATED, by being sent back from the station at which it is to be received to the station from which it is originally sent.  Half the usual price will be charged for repeating the message, and while this Company in good faith will endeavor to send messages correctly and promptly, it will not be responsible for errors or delays in the transmission or delivery, nor for the non-delivery of REPEATED MESSAGES, beyond TWO HUNDRED times the sum paid for sending the message, unless a special agreement for insurance be made in writing, and the amount of risk specified on this agreement, and paid for at the time of sending the message.  Nor will the Company be responsible for any error or delay in the transmission or delivery, or for the non-delivery, of ANY UNREPEATED MESSAGE, beyond the amount paid for sending the same, unless in that manner specially insured, and the amount of risk stated hereon, and paid for at the time.  No liability is assumed for errors in cipher or obscure messages; nor is any liability assumed by this Company for any error or neglect by any other Company over whose lines this message may be sent to reach its destination, and this Company is hereby made the agent of the sender of this message forward it over the lines extending beyond those of this Company. No agent or employee is allowed to vary these terms, or make to any other or verbal agreement, nor any promise as to the time of performance, and no one but a Superintendent is authorized to make a special agreement for insurance.  These terms apply through the whole course of this message on all lines by which it may be transmitted.

CAMBRIDGE LIVINGSTON, Sec'y  E. S. SANFORD, Pres't, 
145 Broadway, N. Y.
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Dated ^[[San Francisco May 15]] 1865

Rec'd, Washington ^[[May 17th]] 1865, .... o'clock, .... min.  M.
To ^[[Prof. J. F. Baird]]
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^[[Smithsonian Institute
The situation seems satisfactory
In spite of the delay
Col Buckley is satisfied
with our men we are
well cannot yet say
when I leave here I 
shall delay details for
the present continue to
write by every mail Repeat]]

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