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Form No. 4.

THE AMERICAN TELEGRAPH CO. 
SOUTHERN DISTRICT,
Under Control and Supervision of the United States Military Telegraph, 
CONNECTING ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWN IN THE UNITED STATES.
Terms and Conditions on which this and all messages are received by this Company.
In order to guard against and correct as much as possible some of the errors arising form atmospheric and other causes appertaining to telegraphy, every important message should be REPEATED, by being sent back from the station at which it is to be received to the station from which it is originally sent. Half the usual price will be chared for repeating the message, and while this Company in good faith will endeavor to send messages correctly and promptly, it will not be responsible for errors or delays in the translation or delivery, nor for the non-delivery of REPEARTED MESSAGES beyond TWO HUNDRED times the sum paid for sending the message, unless a special agreement for insurand be made in writing, and the amount of risk specified on the agreement and paid for 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 liabilit is assumed for errors in cipher or obscure message; no is any liability assumed by the Company an error 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 any other verbal agreement, nor any promise as to the time of 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. 

CAMBRIDGE LIVINGSTON, Sec'y. MARSHALL LEFFERTS, Eng. E.S.SANFORD, Pres't.

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Dated Petersburg Feby 8 1866.
Received at Richmond Feby 8
To Col O. Brown

Fifty 50 to seventy five 75 cords cut  send barge for it

Stuart Barnes
Capt AQM

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