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Blank No. 1 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. The rules of this Company requite that all messages received for transmission, shall be written on the message blanks of the Company, under and subject to the conditions printed thereon, which conditions have been agreed to by the sender of the following message. JOHN VAN HORNE, Gen'l Sup't,} Louisville, Ky. WILLIAM ORTON, Pres't, O.H. PALMER, Sec'y,} New York. Dated Washington 2 186 Received at To L.W. Stevenson Supt of Education Contract for Brownsville approved by order &c Henry Whittlesey 8 paid