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it will not be responsible for errors or delays in the transmissions 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 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 us 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 verbal agreement, nor any promise as to the time or 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, Supt. 
April 18 1866
79 By telegraph from Washington
To Bvt Maj Gen
CB Fisk
Buildings were used as barracks land belong to you 
OO Howard
Maj Gen Comdg

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answ'd Apr 19th

[[stamp]] BUREAU R.F. & A.L. RECD APR 19 1877 NASHVILLE. [[/stamp]]
(not to be copied)