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THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

The rules of this Company require that all messages received for transmission, shall be written on the message blanks of the Company, under and subject to the conditions printed thereon, which conditions have been agreed to by the sender of the following message.

THOS. T. ECKERT, Gen'l Sup't, }
New York.                     }

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WILLIAM ORTON, Pres't, }
O.H. PALMER, Sec'y,    }
New York,

Dated St Louis Mo 18 1871
Received at 8 PM
To Genl E. W Whitesy
Freedmens Bureau

Balance today twenty eight thousand six hundred & seventy five dollars in Merchants National & Freedmens Savings Bank letter of fifteenth Instant answered to day

F A Seeley

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THIS TELEGRAM HAS JUST BEEN RECEIVED AT THE OFFICE IN
511 Pa. Ave. Nat'l Hotel.
WHERE ANY REPLY SHOULD BE SENT

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