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THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
The rules of this Company require that all messages received for transmssion, shall be written on the message Mambo of the Company, under and subject to the conditions primed 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 Galveston June 19th 1869
Received at Austin " " "
T. Joseph Welch
check number five thousand five hundred and eighty six 5386 [?] and deposited to your credit in national bank of Galveston
NW H. Sinclair
20 1295 Collect