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THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
The rules of this Company require 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.

O.H. PALMER, Sec'y.  2  WILLIAM ORTON, Pres't

Washington D.C.  Decr 28 1867
Received at Montgomery  Decr 28
To Gen Wager Swayne

Relieve Colonel Callis from duty in Bureau immediately should he accept the nomination

O O Howard
Maj Genl Com'r

14 W 351 Paid
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