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...be made in writing, and the amount of risk specified on this agreement, and paid at the time of sending the mes-sage. 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 and no one but a Superintendent is authorised to make a special agreement for insurance. These terms apply through the whole course of the message, on all lines by which it may be transmitted. J. C. Van Duzer, Sup't. Mch 1 186 By Telegraph from Louisville 186 To Genl Fisk Freedmen's Bureau Am here enroute to Nashville shall I come down tonight or will you come up Brig Genl John Ely Louisville hotel 16 N. 126 Col [[?]] $1.30 Tell him to come here get it off quick - direct to Louisville Hotel F Bureau R. F. & A.L. Nashville Rec'd Mar 1 1866