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[[illegible]] and while this Company is [[illegible]] to send messages correctly and promptly, it will not be responsible for errors or delays in [[illegible]] 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 aid 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-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 times of performances; 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.

Feby 2 1866
By Telegraph from Bowling Green 1866
To Acting Asst Adjt Genl
Freedmens Bureau

Am notified to return to regiment What shall I do with papers

R W Thug
Lt 12 USC H A

12 n 85 Col 

Rec'd O.A.C. Ky. & Tenn. Feby. 2 1866