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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 error arising from atmospheric and other causes appertaining to telegraphy, every important message should be repeated, by being sent back from the station at whit it is to be received to the station from which it was originally sent. Half the usual price will be charged for repeating the message; and while this company is 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 message, 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 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 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, 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 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.
J.C. VAN DUZER, Sup't.

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By Telegraph from Johnsonville 22186
to W O[[?]] Clarke
Capt. ra aly[[?]]

On the 19th Isiah [[?]] a freedman of this place was murdered by the three sons of Presly Thornton in Benton County on[[?]] the approach of a party of soldiers sent by me to arrest these men they fled & succeeded in making their escape in the woods Presly Thornton is here under guard I consider him accessory to the murder what shall I do with him

Jas Babett
Capt adpt BR't[[?]]
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