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27-12 20P.
Blank No. 1.    
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 condition printed thereon, which condition have been agreed to by the sender of the following message. 

THOS.T.ECKERT, Gen't Sup't, NEW YORK    
WILLIAM ORTON, Pres't, NEW YORK.   
O.H.PALMER, Sec'y, 

4c
Dated St Louis Mo 29 Dec 187
Received at Corner 14th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. 1215PM
To. Geo E Whittlesey

Freedmans Bureau
Washin D.C 2

Twenty three thousand dollars in subtreasury

F A Seely.
18 collect
Govt rate
17  dys