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South-Western Telegraph Company.

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 [[?]] on this agreement, and paid 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 like manner specially insured, and amount of risk stated hereon, and paid for at the time. 

No liability is assumed for errors in cipher of [[?]] messages; nor is any liability assumed by this Company for any error or neglect by any 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 to forward it over the lines extending beyond those of this Company.

No agent or employee is allowed to vary these terms or make any other 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.

Sam. Bruch, Sup't

By Telegraph from [[?]] 1865

To Col Parkhurst
PMG
Negroes making a crop on lands [[?]]abandoned & not taken up by the Govt. - are they entitled to protection against the owners of said property who want to eject them causing the loss of the entire crop to the negroes. The parties are waiting an immediate answer

WR Kennedy
Capt & PM
They will be protected in the enjoyment of all fruits of their labors  Clarke aay