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Form No. 4,
THE AMERICAN TELEGRAPH CO.
SOUTHERN DISTRICT,
Under Control and Supervision of the United States Military Telegraph,
CONNECTING ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN THE UNITED STATES

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 the 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 bot 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 for sending the same, unless in like manner specially insured, and 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 beyond those of this Company. No agent or employee is allowed tot vary the terms, or make 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.  MARSHALL LEFFERTS, Eng.  E.S. SANFORD, Pres't.

Dated War Dept Sept 13 1866
Received at Montgomery Sept 13
To Bvt Major Wager Swayne Asst Comm

Papers state that last Sunday in Clark County two freedmen were sold into slavery for six & seven hundred & fifty dollars if so set them free sending out of state if necessary. There is now no sanction in Constitution for slavery of

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